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Green and gold |website = |colorcode = |seats1_title = Northern Ireland Assembly |seats1 = |seats2_title = Local government in the Republic of Ireland |seats2 = |seats3_title = Local government in Northern Ireland |seats3 = }} The Green Party ((アイルランド語:Comhaontas Glas)) is a green party in Ireland that operates in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It was founded as the Ecology Party of Ireland in 1981 by Dublin teacher Christopher Fettes. The party became the Green Alliance in 1983 and in 1987 was renamed to its current title in English. Its leader is Eamon Ryan, its deputy leader is Catherine Martin and its chairman is Roderic O'Gorman. Green Party candidates have been elected to all levels of representation; local, Dáil and European Parliament, and in 2007 the party gained its first representation in the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Green Party in Northern Ireland having become a region of the party the previous year. The Greens became part of the Irish government for the first time following the Irish general election, 2007, having agreed upon a programme for government in coalition with Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats. In the wake of the Irish financial crisis, the party lost a significant amount of its support and came under pressure to withdraw its support for the administration. In January 2011 the party withdrew from government, after passing legislation for European Union and International Monetary Fund financial support for the Republic's bank bailout, and a dispute with Fianna Fáil over the appointment of cabinet ministers. In the February 2011 election, the party suffered a wipeout, losing all six of its TDs. Following the 2011 Seanad Éireann election, the party no longer has any representatives in the Oireachtas. It has one representative in the Northern Ireland Assembly. ==History== The party's first electoral outing was when seven candidates contested the November 1982 general election under the ''Ecology Party'' banner, winning 0.2% of the vote. Following a name change, they contested the 1984 European Parliament elections, with their party founder winning 1.9% in the Dublin constituency. The following year they won their first election when Marcus Counihan was elected to Killarney Urban District Council during the 1985 local elections. The party nationally ran 34 candidates and won 0.6% of the vote. The party continued to struggle until the general election of 1989 when the (again renamed) party won its first seat in parliament (the Dáil), when Roger Garland was elected in Dublin South. In the 1994 European Parliament election Patricia McKenna topped the poll for the Dublin Constituency and Nuala Ahern won a seat in Leinster. They retained their seats in 1999 although the party lost five councillors in local elections held that year despite an increase in their vote. In the general election of 1997 the party gained a seat when John Gormley won a Dáil seat in Dublin South–East. At the general election of 2002 it made a breakthrough, getting six Teachtaí Dála (TDs) elected to the Dáil with 4% of the national vote. However, in the election to the European Parliament of June 2004, the party lost both of the European Parliament seats. In the 2004 local elections at county level it increased its number of councillors from 8 to 18 out of 883 and at town council level its number of councillors increased from 5 to 14 out of 744. While in government, the vast majority of its seats were lost at the 2009 council elections, including its entire traditional Dublin base, where - with the exception of a Town Council Seat in Balbriggan - it held no council seats in Dublin and only three County Council seats in total. In the 2014 local elections, the party gained nine seats for a total of twelve. The party was successful in the four Dublin area councils. It has about fifteen hundred members. 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 Party (Ireland)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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