European Green Parties are on the up :)

With the European elections of this year less than five months away, and with this year's Euro elections being the most important for many years, let us hear an update on how Green Parties across Europe are currently polling: (note this is based on polls for upcoming parliamentary elections for the respective nation in each case)

Austrian Greens: 13% approximately (last Austrian parliamentary election was as recent as September 2013)
Belgian Greens: 6.3%/4.8% (Flemish and French sections respectively)
Bulgarian Greens: 1-2%.
Cypriot Greens: 3%.
Czech Greens: 3%.
Danish Red-Green alliance:11%.
Estonian Greens: 3%.
Finnish Greens: 8.2%.
German Greens: 10%.
Ecologist Greens (Greek): 2%.
Hungarian Greens (aka Politics Can Be Different):4%.
Irish Greens: 2-3%.
Left Ecology Freedom (includes Italian Greens): 3.1%.
Union of Greens and Farmers (includes Latvian Green Party):approximately 12%.
Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (closest equivalent): 3.5%.
Luxembourg Greens: 10-11% (recent general election)
Democratic Alternative (Malta): 2%.
Groenlinks (Netherlands): 3.8%
Portuguese Ecologists (aligned with Portuguese Communists):11.2%.
Romanian Greens: 1-2%.
Youth Party (Slovenia): 1-2%.
EQUO (Spain): 2% (also, other regional parties of Spain incorporate Green politics e.g. Initiative for Catalonia Greens).
Swedish Greens: 11.2%.
UK Greens: Expected to poll 10-12% in European elections.

Sorry if I could not provide information for all the Green Parties of the EU; I was not always able to obtain reliable polling information.

The results show nonetheless that we are on the up in Europe overall-which will be very important when it comes to electing enough Green MEPs to stop the European Parliament approving dangerous 'free trade agreements', especially TTIP. It also will not be long before we, the European Green Party, select our candidate for European Commission President. If you are a Green, there is still time to vote in the Green Primary-please vote!

I am also glad that left-wing parties in Europe are on the rise as well compared to the last European elections of 2009, which will also be helpful in the task above. I am a Green first,though,despite being a socialist Green, which is why I have listed polling figures for European Green Parties only.

Best wishes, Alan.
 
 
 
 
 

 

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