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Green |international = |european = |europarl = |headquarters = |website = }} The Values Party, considered the world's first national-level environmentalist party, pre-dating any fashionable Green terminology, was established in May 1972 at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. One of its initial leaders was Tony Brunt. Geoff Neill, the party's candidate in the Dunedin North electorate, became the Deputy Leader. ==Policies and beliefs== Several party manifestos sketched a progressive, semi-utopian blueprint for New Zealand's future as an egalitarian, ecologically sustainable society. The party appealed especially to those elements of the New Left who felt alienated both by the small Marxist-Leninist parties of the day, as well as by the bread-and-butter centre-left politics of the New Zealand Labour Party. The party is widely regarded as the first national political party promoting social renewal that incorporated restoring a respectful relationship to nature. From its beginning, the Values Party emphasised proposing alternative policies, rather than taking only an oppositionist stance to the ruling parties.〔Rosalie Steward. (Politics in New Zealand from Beginning to Breakthrough ), ''Synthesis/Regeneration'' 13 (Spring 1997).〕 Values Party policies included campaigns against nuclear power and armaments, advocating zero-population and -economic growth, abortion, drug and homosexual law-reform. Although the Values Party never sat in parliament, it drew considerable attention to these topics. Many political scientists credit the Values Party with making the environment a political issue, and with prompting other parties to formulate their own environmental policies. 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「Values Party」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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