Green League (Finland)
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Green League
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| Finnish name | Vihreä liitto |
| Swedish name | Gröna förbundet |
| Leader | Ville Niinistö |
| Founded | 28 February 1987 |
| Headquarters | Fredrikinkatu 33 A, 2nd floor FI-00120 HELSINKI |
| Membership (2013) | 8,034 |
| Ideology |
Green politics Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | European Green Party |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
| European Parliament group | The Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Colours | Green |
| Parliament |
15 / 200
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| European Parliament |
1 / 13
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| Municipalities |
536 / 8,999
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| Website | |
| http://www.vihreat.fi/ | |
The Green League (Finnish: Vihreä liitto, Vihr.; Swedish: Gröna förbundet) is a greenpolitical party in Finland. It has fifteen seats in the Finnish Parliament and one in the European Parliament. The current chairperson is Ville Niinistö.
Founded in 1987, the party absorbed a number of green organisations, including four MPs elected in 1987. The party won ten seats in the 1991 election. Despite falling to nine seats in 1995, Pekka Haavisto, joined Paavo Lipponen's rainbow coalition first cabinet, making the Green League the first Green party in a national cabinet. The party remained in government until 2002, when it left in opposition to nuclear power. In 2007, the party peaked at 15 seats, and joined the centre-right-led government. At the 2011 election, the party fell to ten seats. Nevertheless, the Greens were invited to join a six-party rainbow coalition government.
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