The Green League (in Finnish: Vihreä liitto, Vihr.; in Swedish: Gröna Förbundet), is a green political party in Finland. The current chairperson is Anni Sinnemäki.
The party was founded February 28, 1987, and registered as a political party the next year. Political activity had begun already in the early 1980s, when environmental activists, feminists and other active groups began to campaign on Green issues in Finland. In 1995 it was the first Eu...
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The Green League (in Finnish: Vihreä liitto, Vihr.; in Swedish: Gröna Förbundet), is a green political party in Finland. The current chairperson is Anni Sinnemäki.
The party was founded February 28, 1987, and registered as a political party the next year. Political activity had begun already in the early 1980s, when environmental activists, feminists and other active groups began to campaign on Green issues in Finland. In 1995 it was the first European Green party to be part of a state-level Cabinet.
The party was founded as a popular movement, and thus retains the descriptor liitto, "league". Initially, there was much resistance within the movement against the founding of a political party, motivated by Robert Michels' iron law of oligarchy, which claims that movements inevitably degenerate into oligarchies when they create a formal organization. The party still especially stresses openness and democratic decision-making. The liitto was later dropped from the Finnish and Swedish...
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