!!!Grünen, Die, G

Gruenen, Die (Austrian Green Party), official name since 1995: "Die 
Gruenen - Die Gruene Alternative (Gruene)" ("The Greens - The Green 
Alternative"), represented in the Nationalrat since the elections of 
1986; political party (2,500 members in 1996) with main focus on 
environmental, democratic and social issues. They have extended the 
political debate to include new topics and raised the general standard 
of environmental protection; the former party leader P.  Pilz made 
himself a name as member of parliamentary investigating committees. 
Former grass-roots approaches (e.g. principle of rotation) and 
spontaneous political culture were gradually replaced by a more 
professional organisation. M.  Petrovic, became a member of the 
Nationalrat in 1994 and subsequently became leader of the Green Party 
in parliament and secretary of the federal party. After electoral 
defeat in 1995, leadership was taken over by C.  Chorherr who passed 
it on to A.  Van der Bellen in 1997; under his leadership, the 
elections to the Nationalrat in 1999 gave the Green Party its best 
results so far.

!Literature
M. Petrovic, Das gruene Projekt, 1994; F. Schandl and G. 
Schattauer, Die Gruenen in Oesterreich, 1995.


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