The Greens (Poland)
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Greens 2004 is Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

's Green Party
Worldwide green parties
A Green party or ecologist party is a formally organized political party based on the principles of Green politics. These principles usually include social justice, reliance on grassroots democracy, nonviolence, and an emphasis on environmentalism...

. It was founded in September 2003 and formally registered in February 2004. The party is not currently represented in either the Sejm
Sejm
The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

 or the Senate. As of 2010, it has 3 councillors and 2 members of regional parliaments.

The party is member of the European Green Party
European Green Party
The European Green Party is the Green political party at European level. As such it is a federation of green parties in Europe.-History:...

 and cooperates with the European Greens–European Free Alliance
European Greens–European Free Alliance
The Greens European Free Alliance is one of the parliamentary groups in the European Parliament....

 in the European Parliament
European Parliament
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the European Union . Together with the Council of the European Union and the Commission, it exercises the legislative function of the EU and it has been described as one of the most powerful legislatures in the world...

.

History

The party was established in 2003 by activists of several social movements. Among its founding members there were i.a. environmentalists, feminists, LGBT and anti-war activists. The first political campaign of the emerging party concerned the Polish European Union membership referendum
Polish European Union membership referendum, 2003
Polish European Union membership referendum in 2003 also known in Poland as European referendum or accession referendum concerned accession of Poland to the European Union and ratification of the Treaty of Accession 2003 by Poland...

, the Greens campaigned for a "yes" vote. Greens 2004 took part in the movement against the Iraq War in 2003 and participated in Equality Parades and other social protests in the time of "Fourth Republic"
Fourth Polish Republic
Fourth Polish Republic , a plan for moral revolution and political change put forth in 1997 by the Polish conservative philosopher Rafał Matyja in the magazine "Nowe Państwo"...

 (2005-2007).

Election results

In the European Parliament election in 2004
European Parliament election, 2004 (Poland)
Elections to the European Parliament were held in Poland on 13 June 2004. 20.87% of eligible citizens voted; of these, 97.33% of the votes cast were valid. The elections resulted in a heavy defeat for the governing Alliance of the Democratic Left and Labor Union parties, although the very low...

 the Greens received 0.27% of the votes. Before the 2005 Polish parliamentary elections
Polish parliamentary election, 2005
Parliamentary elections for both houses of the Parliament of Poland were held on September 25, 2005. Thirty million voters were eligible to vote for all 460 members of the lower house, the Assembly of the Republic of Poland , and all 100 members of the upper house, the Senate of the Republic of...

, the Greens formed a coalition with the Social Democracy of Poland (SDPL). Their common list achieved 3.89% of the votes, the Greens' portion was 0.17%. In the 2005 presidential election
Polish presidential election, 2005
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, the Greens supported Marek Borowski
Marek Borowski
Marek Stefan Borowski is a Polish left-wing politician. He led the Democratic Left Alliance for a time and was Speaker of the Sejm from 2001 to 2004....

, the chairman of the SDPL, who received 10.33% of the votes. In the Polish parliamentary elections of 2007
Polish parliamentary election, 2007
Early parliamentary elections for both houses of parliament were held in Poland on 21 October 2007 after the Sejm voted for its own dissolution on 7 September 2007. The election took place two years before the maximum tenure of four years, with the previous elections having been in September 2005...

, the Greens contested one district in the Senate. In February 2009, they formed a coalition called Alliance for the Future (Porozumienie dla Przyszłości - CentroLewica) with the social liberal
Social liberalism
Social liberalism is the belief that liberalism should include social justice. It differs from classical liberalism in that it believes the legitimate role of the state includes addressing economic and social issues such as unemployment, health care, and education while simultaneously expanding...

 Democratic Party and the social democratic
Social democracy
Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism...

 SDPL, forming a common list for the 2009 European Parliament election
European Parliament election, 2009 (Poland)
The European Parliament election of 2009 in Poland was the election of the delegation from Poland to the European Parliament in 2009 which took place on 7 June 2009. On 13 February the Sejm accepted a proposal for an amendment to the electoral court act to allow voting for the European Parliament...

. In local elections in 2010
Polish local elections, 2010
The 2010 Polish local elections were held in two parts, with its first round on November 21 and second on December 5. The first round included elections of deputies to provincial voivodeship sejmiks, as well for gmina and powiat councilors. The second round of elections were marked for mayors,...

 members of the Greens ran in most cases from the lists of Democratic Left Alliance
Democratic Left Alliance
Democratic Left Alliance is a social-democratic political party in Poland. Formed in 1991 as a coalition of centre-left parties, it was formally established as a single party on 15 April 1999. It is currently the third largest opposition party in Poland....

. In these elections, the Greens won five seats in local councils and regional parliaments.

Policy

The framework for Green policies, called The Green Manifesto, was adopted by the founding congress of the party on 6th and 7th September 2003. The Green Manifesto outlined the principles of green politics
Green politics
Green politics is a political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy...

 in seven areas: social justice and solidarity, civil society and reclaiming the state for citizens, environmental protection and sustainable development, gender equality, respect for national, cultural and religious diversity, protecting minority rights, and non-violent conflict resolution.

At the 4th Congress in April 2011, the Greens 2004 adopted elaborated policy documents concerning the principles of social policy, education policy, and health care policy.

Leaders

Female co-chair
  • 2003-2008 Magdalena Mosiewicz
  • 2008-2010 Agnieszka Grzybek
  • 2010- Małgorzata Tkacz-Janik
    Małgorzata Tkacz-Janik
    Małgorzata Tkacz-Janik is a Polish feminist activist and politician. Together with Dariusz Szwed she leads Poland's green party Greens 2004. Since November 2010 she has been a member of the regional parliament of Silesia....



Male co-chair
  • 2003-2004 Jacek Bożek
  • 2004- Dariusz Szwed
    Dariusz Szwed
    Dariusz Szwed is a Polish politician, feminist, activist. Chairman of Poland's Green Party – Zieloni 2004. Delegate of Zieloni 2004 to the European Green Party. Co-ordinator of campaigns "Green economy" and "Green energy"...


Councillors and members of regional parliaments

  • Małgorzata Tkacz-Janik
    Małgorzata Tkacz-Janik
    Małgorzata Tkacz-Janik is a Polish feminist activist and politician. Together with Dariusz Szwed she leads Poland's green party Greens 2004. Since November 2010 she has been a member of the regional parliament of Silesia....

    , member of the regional parliament of Silesia
    Silesian Voivodeship
    Silesian Voivodeship, or Silesia Province , is a voivodeship, or province, in southern Poland, centering on the historic region known as Upper Silesia...

  • Ewa Koś, member of the regional parliament of West Pomerania
    West Pomeranian Voivodeship
    West Pomeranian Voivodeship, , is a voivodeship in northwestern Poland. It borders on Pomeranian Voivodeship to the east, Greater Poland Voivodeship to the southeast, Lubusz Voivodeship to the south, the German federal-state of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania to the west, and the Baltic Sea to the north...

  • Krystian Legierski
    Krystian Legierski
    Krystian Legierski is a Polish LGBT activist, entrepreneur, member of the Greens 2004. In local elections in 2010 he won a seat in the Warsaw City Council, thus becoming the first openly gay politician elected to a political office in Poland.He was born in Poland, to a Polish mother and a...

    , councillor in Warsaw
    Warsaw
    Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

  • Beata Kubica, councillor in Opole
    Opole
    Opole is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River . It has a population of 125,992 and is the capital of the Upper Silesia, Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County...

  • Sebastian Kotlarz, councillor in Kąty Wrocławskie

Other notable members

Other notable members of the party include: Kinga Dunin
Kinga Dunin
Kinga Dunin is a Polish writer, feminist, and sociologist. She is a columnist for the Wysokie Obcasy and academic teacher at the Medical University of Warsaw. Before 1989 she was active in the democratic opposition...

 (writer, feminist, editor of Krytyka Polityczna), Radosław Gawlik (environmental activist, former deputy minister of the environment
Minister of the environment
An environment minister is a cabinet position in charged with protecting the natural environment and promoting wildlife conservation...

), Zbigniew Marek Hass, Wojciech Koronkiewicz (poet, journalist, film director), Izabela Kowalczyk (art critic), Bartłomiej Kozek, Aleksandra Kretkowska, Bartosz Lech
Bartosz Lech
Bartosz Lech is one of the first members of the Polish Green Party, an organization to which he remains connected. He stood as a a candidate in the 2005 parliamentary election in Poland. In 2007–2008 he chaired the Young European Greens...

 (former co-chair of the FYEG
Federation of Young European Greens
The Federation of Young European Greens is a federation of Green youth organisations from all over Europe . It is the official youth wing of the European Green Party European political party...

), Jerzy Masłowski, Magdalena Masny, Adam Ostolski (sociologist, member of Krytyka Polityczna), Monika Paca, Kazimiera Szczuka
Kazimiera Szczuka
Kazimiera Szczuka is a Polish literary historian, literary critic and television personality, known from the Polish edition of The Weakest Link....

 (writer, feminist, hosted the Polish version of The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link
The Weakest Link is a television game show which first appeared in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 14 August 2000 and will end its run in 2012 when its host Anne Robinson ends her contract. The original British version of the show airs around the world on BBC Entertainment...

), Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful Polish writers of her generation, particularly noted for the hallmark mythical tone of her writing. She trained as a psychologist at the University of Warsaw. She has published a collection of poems, three novels,...

 (writer), Ludwik Tomiałojć (ornithologist
Ornithology
Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the study of birds. Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and the aesthetic appeal of birds...

).

External links


Sources for expansion of the article might be: homepage of the party, in Polish, European Green Party's Zieloni 2004 sub-site and Zieloni 2004 at Eurogreens.
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