Green Party in Northern Ireland
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Green Party in Northern Ireland
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| Leader | Steven Agnew |
| Deputy Leader | Clare Bailey |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Headquarters |
Bangor County Down Northern Ireland |
| Youth wing | Young Greens |
| Membership (2016) | 600 (2015) |
| Ideology |
Green politics Nonsectarianism Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Green Party of Ireland |
| European affiliation | European Green Party |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
| European Parliament group | European Greens–European Free Alliance |
| Colours | Green and blue |
| NI Assembly |
2 / 108
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| NI Local Councils |
3 / 462
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| Website | |
| www |
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The Green Party in Northern Ireland is a green party in Northern Ireland which works in co-operation with green parties across Britain and Ireland, Europe and globally. Like many green parties around the world, its origins lie in the anti-nuclear, labour and peace movements of the 1970s and early 1980s.
Since 2006, the party has operated as a region of the Green Party of Ireland and also maintains links with other Green parties, including the Scottish Green Party and the Green Party of England and Wales.
The party has a youth wing operating in Northern Ireland, the Young Greens.
The party also has an LGBTQ policy and activist group operating in Northern Ireland, the Queer Greens.
The Green Party has four key values: social justice, environmental sustainability, grassroots democracy and non-violence. It is considered to be more to the left than most parties in Northern Ireland.
The Green Party has been involved in several major campaigns since entering the Northern Ireland Assembly, including clean rivers and anti-nuclear campaigns, opposition to fracking, and fighting the austerity agenda. It has also campaigned against the development of incinerators at Belfast North Foreshore and Lough Neagh, and against proposals to extend the airport runway at George Best Belfast City Airport.
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