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Rainbow Greens Verdi Arcobaleno | |
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Leader | Mario Capanna |
Deputy Leader | Francesco Rutelli |
Spokesperson | Edo Ronchi Adelaide Aglietta Adele Faccio |
Founded | 1 January 1989 (1989-01-01) |
Dissolved | 9 December 1990 (1990-12-09) |
Merged into | Federation of the Greens |
Headquarters | Via Salandra 6,Rome |
Ideology | Green politics Eco-socialism |
Political position | Centre-left toleft-wing |
European affiliation | European Federation of Green Parties(1989–1990) |
European Parliament group | Green Group(1989–1990) |
Colors | Green |
Rainbow Greens (Italian:Verdi Arcobaleno) was agreenpolitical party in Italy.
It was founded in May 1989 by splinters ofProletarian Democracy (Mario Capanna,Virginio Bettini,Gianni Tamino,Edo Ronchi andPaolo Gentiloni) and some leadingRadicals (Adelaide Aglietta,Adele Faccio,Francesco Rutelli,Franco Corleone andMarco Boato).
It took part in the1989 European elections, under the denomination 'Rainbow Greens for Europe' (Verdi Arcobaleno per l'Europa), receiving 2.4% of the vote and electing 2 MEPs,[1][2] who sat in theGreen Group.[3]
In December 1990 it merged with theFederation of Green Lists (Gianni Mattioli,Lino De Benetti,Gianfranco Amendola,Alexander Langer,Enrico Falqui,Sauro Turroni andAlfonso Pecoraro Scanio) to form theFederation of the Greens.[4]