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The Greens Déi Gréng | |
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| Leader | Stéphanie Empain François Benoy |
| Founded | 23 June 1983 |
| Headquarters | 3, rue du Fossé L-1536Luxembourg |
| Youth wing | Déi Jonk Gréng (Young Greens) |
| Ideology | Green politics[3] Pro-Europeanism[2] |
| Political position | Centre-left[5] |
| Regional affiliation | SGD/SVD |
| European affiliation | European Green Party |
| European Parliament group | Greens/EFA[2] |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
| Colours | Green |
| Chamber of Deputies | 4 / 60 |
| European Parliament | 1 / 6 |
| Local Councils | 64 / 722 |
| Benelux Parliament | 1 / 7 |
| Website | |
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The Greens (Luxembourgish:Déi Gréng,French:Les Verts,German:Die Grünen) is agreenpolitical party inLuxembourg.[1][6]
The Luxembourgish Greens were founded on 23 June 1983 as theGreen Alternative Party (GAP). Among its founding members were people engaged in the peace movement and the movement against a nuclear power plant in Luxembourg. Many came from left socialist groups that had split from theLSAP and from the former Maoist movement who had already in 1979 been involved in the electoralAlternative List - Resist. In the1984 elections, the party two seats in theChamber of Deputies. In 1985, however the GAP split and its more conservative wing founded theGreen List Ecological Initiative (GLEI). They competed separately in the1989 election, where they won two seats each.
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In 1994, the two parties presented a common list for theelections. They won five seats in the Chamber, getting nearly 11% of the votes, which made them the fourth strongest force in parliament. In that year'sEuropean elections, which coincided with the national elections, the party won one of the six seats allotted to Luxembourg. In 1995, the two parties merged officially. That same year, the Greens'MEP,Jup Weber, left the party again, forming theGreen and Liberal Alliance and joining theEuropean Radical Alliance in theEuropean Parliament.
In the1999 elections, the party lost a considerable number of votes (falling to 9%), but retained its five seats in the Chamber and re-gained its single seat in theEuropean Parliament.
In2004, the Greens regained the ground that they had lost in 1999 and won two additional seats in the Chamber. Although they got 15% of the votes in the coincidingEuropean elections, placing them third, they couldn't add to their single seat.
In the June 2009 elections, the Luxembourg Green Party further increased their European score to 16,83% and sent its outgoing MEPClaude Turmes to Brussels and Strasbourg for a third mandate. In the coinciding national elections, they kept a status quo (+0,13%). Its 7 Members of Parliament (MP) all got reelected. However, its longest serving MP and founding memberJean Huss declared the following day, that he would retire from parliamentary politics in 2011 to the benefit ofJosée Lorsché.
In the2013 general election, the Greens stagnated at 10.1% and their number of seats dropped to 6. However, they became part of athree-party-coalition government with the liberalDemocratic Party (DP) and theLuxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) led by DP's Xavier Bettel. The Greens had three ministers:Félix Braz,Minister for Justice,François Bausch,Minister for Sustainable Development and Infrastructure andCarole Dieschbourg, Minister for the Environment. It was the first time that the Greens were part of a national government of Luxembourg.
Since the 2023 election, they have been in opposition again.
The Greens are a typical green party. Sustainable development is one of their key issues. However, topics such as anecologicaltax reform,renewable energy andenergy efficiency or the consolidation ofpension funds play an equally and ever increasingly important role. Especially in a country such as Luxembourg, pioneer of a newmelting-pot society in Europe, equalparticipation ofmigrants is of utmost importance.
Furthermore, in its declaration of principles it has outlined, among others, the following priorities:[7]
| Election | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 169,862 | 4.2 (#4) | 2 / 64 | New | Opposition |
| 1989 | 275,756 | 8.6 (#5) | 4 / 60 |  2 | Opposition |
| 1994 | 303,991 | 9.9 (#4) | 5 / 60 | 1 | Opposition |
| 1999 | 266,644 | 9.1 (#5) | 5 / 60 |  0 | Opposition |
| 2004 | 355,895 | 11.6 (#4) | 7 / 60 | 2 | Opposition |
| 2009 | 347,388 | 11.7 (#4) | 7 / 60 | 0 | Opposition |
| 2013 | 331,920 | 10.1 (#4) | 6 / 60 |  1 | Coalition |
| 2018 | 533,893 | 15.1 (#4) | 9 / 60 | 3 | Coalition |
| 2023 | 321,895 | 8.6 (#5) | 4 / 60 | 5 | Opposition |
| Election | List leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | EP Group |
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| 1984 | Jean Huss | 60,152 | 6.08 (#4) | 0 / 6 | New | – |
| 1989 | 42,926 | 4.32 (#6) | 0 / 6 | 0 | ||
| 1994 | Jup Weber | 110,888 | 10.93 (#4) | 1 / 6 | 1 | G |
| 1999 | Camille Gira | 108,514 | 10.70 (#4) | 1 / 6 | 0 | G/EFA |
| 2004 | Claude Turmes | 163,754 | 15.02 (#3) | 1 / 6 | 0 | |
| 2009 | 189,523 | 16.83 (#4) | 1 / 6 | 0 | ||
| 2014 | 176,073 | 15.02 (#2) | 1 / 6 | 0 | ||
| 2019 | Tilly Metz | 237,215 | 18.91 (#3) | 1 / 6 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 162,955 | 11.76 (#4) | 1 / 6 | 0 |
The Congress is the highest organ of the party. It sets out the party's strategy and political course and is open to all members of the party. Every two years, the congress elects the leadership of the party's organisation: two presidents, an executive committee, the party board in which the party's youth wing and the gender council are also represented, an executive council that represents the congress, the treasurer and a financial control board.
The Greens are member of theEuropean Green Party and theGlobal Greens.
