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Encyclopedia > Green Party (Brazil)

The Brazilian Green Party (in Portuguese, Partido Verde - PV) was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties arround the world, is committed to establishing an whole set of policies on ensuring social-democracy and sustainable development.


Among the main items on PV's agenda, there are Federalism, environmentalism, human rights, a form of Direct Democracy, Parliamentarism, welfare, civil liberties and pacifism.


After Lula's election as president of Brazil in 2002, the Green Party was assigned the Ministry of Culture, to which pop singer Gilberto Gil was appointed.


External link

  • Official Website (http://www.pv.org.br/) (in Portuguese)

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Green Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2493 words)
Greens emphasize environmentalism, decentralization and local autonomy, in keeping with the Green commitment to non-hierarchical participatory democracy, so it is perhaps not surprising that the strength of the Green Party does not derive from a central national organization.
John Eder is the highest-ranking Green in the U.S., elected to the Maine House of Representatives in 2002 (and re-elected in 2004).
In the 2004 presidential election, the candidate of the Green Party of the United States for President was Texas attorney and GPUS legal counsel David Cobb, and its candidate for vice-president was labor activist Pat LaMarche of Maine.
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