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Green Party of Germany

political party, Germany
Also known as: Alliance ’90/The Greens, Bündnis ’90/Die Grünen, Die Grünen, the Greens(Show More)
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David P. Conradt
Professor of Political Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina. Author of The Germany Polity and others.
David P. Conradt
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Green Party of Germany, German environmentalist political party. It first won representation at the national level in 1983, and from 1998 to 2005 it formed a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party (SPD). In 2021 the Greens posted their best-ever performance in a federal election, claiming almost 15 percent of the vote. The Green Party traces its origins to the student protest movement of the 1960s, the environmentalist movement of the 1970s, and the...

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