Green List

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Green List
Zelena lista
Leader Vlasta Toth and Milan Lončar
Founded 2005
Headquarters Zagreb
Ideology Green politics,
Social progressivism[1]
International affiliation Global Greens (observer)
European affiliation European Green Party (observer)
Colours Green
Website
http://www.zelena-lista.hr

Politics of Croatia
Political parties
Elections

The Green List (Croatian: Zelena lista, ZL) is a green political party in Croatia. It was created in 2005 for local elections for Zagreb Assembly. It was firstly named Greens for Zagreb (Zeleni za Zagreb). At the local elections in May 2009, the party won 14 mandates in Zagreb's city quarters (Gradska četvrt) and five in other local councils. [2] As well as their green politics, the party strongly supports gender equality, equal representation and participation of genders and LGBT rights. The party is against NATO membership.

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2009-2010 Presidential election [edit]

On October 26th, the Green list announced they would support Alka Vuica as their candidate for President of Croatia. However, they failed to collect needed number of 10,000 signatures. In the 2nd round, they supported the SDP candidate Ivo Josipovic.

2007 general elections [edit]

These are the first parliamentary elections for the Green List for which the has party put forward candidates, contesting 7 of 12 of the multi-member constituencies. They won between 0.3 and 0.7% of votes. In their program they warned of the dangers of global warming and advocated measures such as removing the legal barriers they believe holds back small scale solar power and ensuring that small scale producers will be paid for surpluses.[3] It is the first political party in Croatia to have included a LGBT program for any election campaign.[1][2]

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