Green Alternative Зелёная альтернатива | |
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Abbreviation | GA (English) ЗА (Russian) |
Leader | Ruslan Khvostov |
Founded | 10 March 2020 |
Split from | Mestnye |
Headquarters | 17, Dukhovskoy Lane Moscow, Russia |
Ideology | Green politics |
Political position | Centre-left |
Colours | Green |
Seats in the Federation Council | 0 / 170 |
Seats in the State Duma | 0 / 450 |
Seats in the Regional Parliaments | 2 / 3,983 |
Website | |
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Green Alternative (GA; Russian: Зелёная альтернатива; ЗА; Zelyonaya al'ternativa, ZA) is a green political party in Russia. It was established in March 2020.
Green Alternative does not exclusively associate itself with the environmental movement, calling itself a "moderate left-wing environmental party of the European type".[1]
Green Alternative was created as a social movement in December 2019 by environmental activist and former Mestnye member Ruslan Khvostov.[2]
In February 2020, documents for registration of a political party were submitted to the Ministry of Justice.[3]
On 10 March 2020, the founding congress of the Green Alternative was held, where Ruslan Khvostov was elected party leader, gaining almost 80% of the vote. In addition, the famous artist Vasya Lozhkin[4]
was elected informal leader of the party.On 7 April 2020, the party was officially registered by the Ministry of Justice and in May received the right to participate in the elections.[5][6][7]
The party participated in the 2020 regional elections, gaining 10% of the vote in the Komi Republic and 5.4% in the Chelyabinsk region.[8][9] Since the party won seats in regional parliaments, it has the right to participate in Federal parliamentary elections without collecting signatures.[10]
In the 2021 legislative elections, Green Alternative came twelfth, winning 0.64% of the popular vote and no seats.
Election | Party leader | Performance | Rank | Government | ||||
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Votes | % | ± pp | Seats | +/– | ||||
2021 | Ruslan Khvostov | 357,855 | 0.64% |
New | 0 / 450
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New | 12th | Extra-parliamentary |