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{{Expand Spanish|topic=gov|fa=yes|date=March 2017|Los Verdes-Grupo Verde}}
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| name = The Greens–Green Group
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| foundation = April 1994
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| ideology = [[Green politics]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/pv.html |title=Partidos ecologistas  |language=es |publisher=historiaelectoral.com |access-date=8 March 2017}}</ref>
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| website = {{url|http://www.los-verdes.es/}}
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'''The Greens–Green Group''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Los Verdes–Grupo Verde''; LV–GV), founded in 1994 as '''Green Group''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Grupo Verde''; GV), is a [[Green politics|green]] political party in Spain.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historiaelectoral.com/pv.html |title=Partidos ecologistas  |language=es |publisher=historiaelectoral.com |access-date=8 March 2017}}</ref> It is a founding member of the Roundtable for the Unity of the Greens in Spain. It was created as an electoral list in the [[1994 European Parliament election in Spain|1994 European Parliamentary Elections]]. Since its creation, its spokesperson has been Esteban Cabal. It is not part of the [[European Green Party]], and should not be confused with the EGP's previous representative in Spain, the [[Confederation of the Greens]].

== History and evolution ==

The Greens–Green Group was created in 1994 when a group of people from the Spanish environmental movement decided to declare candidacy for the European Parliamentary Elections, in response to deep division within the Confederation of the Greens.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090225173916/http://www.ctv.es/USERS/ecabal/documentos/historia/1994.html Historia de Los Verdes. Capítulo XXII. 1989: Las elecciones al Parlamento Europeo de 1994], por [[Esteban Cabal]].</ref> Heading the list was Esteban Cabal, who had been elected city councilor in [[Rivas-Vaciamadrid]] in the municipal elections of 1991 in a coalition with the [[United Left (Spain)|United Left]] and [[PSOE]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090225174414/http://www.ctv.es/USERS/ecabal/documentos/historia/rivas.html Historia de Los Verdes. Capítulo XXI. La experiencia de Rivas Vaciamadrid], por [[Esteban Cabal]].</ref>

In 2006, The Greens–Green Group promoted the [[Green Unity Roundtable]] in an attempt to bring other green parties together. But in the end, it decided to present its own candidates, rather than establish electoral alliances.<ref name="mesa">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120627192906/http://www.radioarlanzon.com/modules.php?name=news Los Verdes-Grupo Verde presentarán candidatura en solitario en Burgos desligándose de la coalición IU-Los Verdes], ''Radio Arlanzón'', 20 de diciembre de 2006.</ref>

On September 24, 2010, Los Verdes-Grupo Verde and the United Left announced an agreement to work on aligning their policies through the [[Refoundation of the Left]]. The agreement included the creation of a "working roundtable" to produce a New Political Program. The interests of environmental, feminist, and pacifist organizations would be represented in the roundtable.<ref>[http://www.izquierda-unida.es/node/7861 IU y Los Verdes-Grupo Verde acuerdan estrechar lazos programáticos, electorales y fortalecer la ecología desde propuestas alternativas], ''Izquierda Unida'', 24 de septiembre de 2010.</ref> In 2012, the president of the LV-GV, Esteban Cabal, declared the breakdown of the agreements between his party and the United Left, branding them as delinquents.<ref>[http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2012/04/26/madrid/1335456482_700744.html "IU-Los Verdes se ha roto, se han comportado como delincuentes"] ''El País'', 26 de abril de 2012.</ref>

In the [[April 2019 Spanish general election|2019 Spanish general election]], the filmmaker [[Fernando Colomo]] was the [[Madrid (province)|Madrid]] candidate to the [[Spanish Senate]] for the Zero Cuts – Green Group – [[Partido Castellano]] – [[Tierra Comunera]] coalition.<ref>[https://www.davidayala.com En España], ''Spanish'', 25 de marzo de 2020.</ref>

== See also==
* [[Equo]], another green party in Spain

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* {{Official website}}
{{Green parties}}

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