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Cartago Green Party Partido Verde de Cartago | |
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| President | Rodrigo José Arias Gutiérrez |
| Secretary-General | Sergio Solano Bonilla |
| Founded | November 11, 2004 |
| Ideology | Green politics |
| International affiliation | Global Greens (Associate) |
| Colors | Green |
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The Green Party of Cartago (Spanish : Partido Verde de Cartago; originally named Green Ecological Party) is a provincial political party in Cartago, Costa Rica. The party follows environmentalist ideas and platform, and is a member of both the Global Greens and the Federation of Green Parties of the Americas. [1] [2] The party also received the endorsement of Costa Rica’s Greenpeace local branch.
The party was founded in September 2004 by journalist Carlos Arrieta and English teacher Rodrigo Arias, among others. [3] Party’s leaders acknowledge that some of the major parties like Citizens Action, have endorse environmentalist policies in Congress and oppose projects damageable for the environment, [3] but assure the need for a specific ecological party in the Assembly. With Arrieta as nominee to Congress, the party obtained 1,604 votes in 2006 and 2,901 in 2010 with no seats earned. [3] Its best results were during the 2016 municipal elections when it received a strong support in Paraiso Canton earning a seat in the Municipal Council and the Syndic of the central district. [4]
