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Green 2000 was a movement to streamline the constitutional arrangements of the Green Party of England and Wales in the early 1990s, with the stated aim of getting a Green government by the year 2000.〔(Green Party history )〕 ==Overview== Prominent members included Jonathon Porritt, Sara Parkin and Jean Lambert. Moderate supporters of the proposals included Caroline Lucas and Darren Johnson. The constitutional changes passed in 1991 included: * Creating a party Executive of 10 members to replace the Green Party Council of 25 * Reducing the official Principal Speakers from six to two * Creating a single party Chair to replace the three Co-Chairs * Creating a Regional Council to hold the Executive accountable between conferences These Executive and Regional Council structures replaced a very large single "Green Party Council". Although the changes were adopted by the party, many of the members who proposed the changes left the party at the end of the first year's executive, in September 1992, leaving 'decentralists' and a leftist group called Association of Socialist Greens grouped around the newsletter ''The Way Ahead'', who had opposed the changes, in charge of the party's new structures.〔(Article by John Morrisey )〕 Derek Wall says: “The right around the Green 2000 faction wanted to make us into a mainstream party with mass appeal, ditch the radicalism, reengineer the Party constitution and centralise power. We fought them. I remember Sara Parkin talking to the Independent about 'socialist parasites' i.e. myself and Penny Kemp who had been members nearly as long as her. They won and then imploded, when the Party received just a couple of percentage at the 1992 General Election. When the 'realists' believe in achieving a Westminster Parliamentary government by 2000 (thus Green 2000), give me fundamentalism.”〔(Interview with Wall )〕 The disputes leading up to Green 2000 in the late 1980s were also a factor in the decision of the Scottish Green Party to become independent. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Green 2000」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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