Green Party (Brazil)

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Partido Verde




President	José Luiz de França Penna

Founded	January, 1986
Headquarters	SDS Edifício Miguel Badya, 216 Brasília

Political Ideology	Green
International Affiliation	Global Greens, Federation of the Green Parties of the Americas
Colours	green
TSE Identification Number	43

Website	www.pv.org.br

See also	Politics of Brazil Political parties Elections

The Brazilian Green Party (in Portuguese, Partido Verde - PV) was constituted after the military dictatorship period and, like other Green Parties around the world, is committed to establishing a set of policies on ensuring social-democracy and sustainable development. One of the party's founding members was the journalist and former anti-dictatorship revolutionary Fernando Gabeira (a federal deputy since 1995).

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

At the last legislative elections, 1 October 2006, the party won 13 out of 513 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and no out of 81 seats in the Senate.

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.

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Official Website (in Portuguese)
Official web site

Political parties in Brazil
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v • d • e Green Parties
Africa	Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Mauritius, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa
Americas	Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, United States
Asia-Pacific	Australia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Mongolia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, Philippines, Polynesia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vanuatu
Europe (EGP, FYEG)	Albania, Austria, Belgium (Flanders and Brussels), Belgium (Wallonia and Brussels), Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark (the Greens), Denmark (Socialist People's Party), England and Wales, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands (The Greens), Netherlands (GreenLeft), Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania (Ecological Party), Romania (Green Party), Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Spain (Catalonia), Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine
Italic links indicate observers or non-members of the Global Greens.