Green Left (Hungary)

Green Left

Zöld Baloldal
Green Left Zöld Baloldal
President	Attila Trasciatti
Founded	28 February 2009
Dissolved	11 October 2018
Merger of	ZDSZ, EFKEME and Workers' Party '06
Newspaper	A Mi Időnk
Ideology	Eco-socialism; Environmentalism; Feminism
Political position	Left-wing
European affiliation	European Green Party; (until Sep 2015)
International affiliation	Global Greens; (until Sep 2015)
National Assembly	0 / 199
European Parliament	0 / 21
	Politics of Hungary; Political parties; Elections;

The Green Left (Hungarian: Zöld Baloldal, pronounced [ˈzøld ˈbɒloldɒl]; ZB), was a green eco-socialist political party in Hungary, founded in 2009.

History

It was established by the merger of the Alliance of Green Democrats (ZDSZ), the European Feminist Initiative for a Different Europe (EFKEME) and the Workers' Party of Hungary 2006. It has a green socialist, radical left, anti-capitalist and alter-globalist ideology. In March 2009, the Hungarian Anti-Fascist League and the Social Charta 2008 joined the alliance. The first leader of the party was György Droppa. On 30 May 2010, Marxist philosopher Gáspár Miklós Tamás was elected new president of the party.^[2]

The ZB received only 0.03 percent of the individual votes in the 2010 parliamentary election, while its green party rival the Politics Can Be Different (LMP) jumped over the electoral threshold.^[3] After that ZB marginalized, its member parties started to operate independently again. During the 2014 local elections, some members run as candidate under 4K! – Fourth Republic! banner.^[2] On 7 September 2015, ZB withdrew its European Green Party membership because of financial reasons.

Election results

National Assembly

Election year	National Assembly				Government
Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	/–	Government
2010	1,425	0.03 %	0 / 386		Extra-parliamentary

References

^ Herczeg, Márk (11 October 2018). "Megszüntetik az Emberek Pártját, a Magyarország a Magyaroké Magyar Nemzeti Pártot és a Demokratikus Keresztény Királyság Pártot is". 444 (in Hungarian). Retrieved 16 December 2019.
^ ^a ^b Vida 2011, p. 468.
^ Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 899. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

Sources

Vida, István (2011). "Zöld Baloldal (ZB)". Magyarországi politikai pártok lexikona (1846–2010) [Encyclopedia of the Political Parties in Hungary (1846–2010)] (in Hungarian). Gondolat Kiadó. p. 468. ISBN 978-963-693-276-3.

External links

[1] Herczeg, Márk (11 October 2018). "Megszüntetik az Emberek Pártját, a Magyarország a Magyaroké Magyar Nemzeti Pártot és a Demokratikus Keresztény Királyság Pártot is". 444 (in Hungarian). Retrieved 16 December 2019.

[FOOTNOTEVida2011468-2] Vida 2011, p. 468.

[NS-3] Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p. 899. ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7

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