Party of Greens Zöldek Pártja | |
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| President | László Ács |
| Founded | 22 January 2006 |
| Dissolved | October 2022 |
| Split from | Alliance of Green Democrats |
| Ideology | Green politics |
| National Assembly | 0 / 199 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 21 |
| Website | |
| zoldekpartja | |
TheParty of Greens (Hungarian:Zöldek Pártja,pronounced[ˈzøldɛkˈpaːrcɒ];ZÖP), or simplyGreens, was agreen political party inHungary, founded in January 2006.
The Party of Greens was established inSzeghalom on 22 January 2006 by some rural branches of theAlliance of Green Democrats (ZDSZ) under the leadership of entrepreneur László Ács, who quit ZDSZ just before the2006 parliamentary election. In the following weeks, other ZDSZ organizations joined the new party. ZÖP adopted its program from the ZDSZ, in which demanded the rationalization of energy management and development of agricultural techniques protecting the environment.[1] ZÖP had 11 individual candidates and 3 county regional lists in the 2006 parliamentary election, where received 2,870 votes (0.05%). By contrast,György Droppa's ZDSZ gained only 95 votes. The ZÖP did not run in the2009 European Parliament election and the2010 parliamentary election.[2]
ZÖP re-activated itself for the2014 parliamentary election. The party was able to nominee 33 individual candidates, including former astronautBertalan Farkas,[3] and a national list. Finally, the ZÖP received 18,557 votes (0.37%), alongside theHungarian Workers' Party, the only extra-parliamentary party which obtained more votes than required proposal coupons.[4]In October 2022, the party was liquidated.[citation needed]
| Election | Leader | SMCs | MMCs | Seats | +/– | Status | ||
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| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||
| 2006 | László Ács | 4,678 | 0.09% (#13) | 2,870 | 0.05% (#9) | 0 / 199 | New | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2010 | Did not contest | |||||||
| Election | Leader | Constituency | Party list | Seats | +/– | Status | ||
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||||
| 2014 | László Ács | 9,392 | 0.19% (#12) | 18,557 | 0.37% (#8) | 0 / 199 |  0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2018 | Did not contest | |||||||
| 2022 | 208 | 0.00% (#11) | — | 0 / 199 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary | ||
| National Assembly (199) |
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| Not represented* |
* Threshold for parties to join the National Assembly in Hungary is 5% of the popular vote, 10% for coalitions of two parties, and 15% for coalitions of three or more parties. |
| European Parliament (21) | |
