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Greens Greens Verdi Verdi | |
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| Leader | Maurizio Lupi |
| Coordinator | Fabio Sanfilippo |
| Founded | 14 January 1991 |
| Split from | Federation of the Greens |
| Headquarters | Via Pio VII 78, 10135 Turin |
| Ideology | Green conservatism Green liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
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| www.verdiverdi.it | |
The Greens Greens (Verdi Verdi) is a liberal-environmentalist political party in Italy. The party is predominantly active in Piedmont.[ citation needed ]
The party was founded in January 1991 by Maurizio Lupi, a physical education teacher and former member of Christian Democracy and of Federation of the Greens. [1] [2]
The party took part in Italian elections for the first time at the 1992 general election. The party got 0.07% of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies and 0.09% in the Senate. [3] [4] In 1997, Lupi ran as mayor of Turin, receiving 0.74% of the votes, while his party got 0.81% of the votes. [5] In 1999, the party ran in Turin provincial election, getting 0.38% of the votes. [6]
In 2003, the party's local representative Roberto De Santis received 0.5% of the votes in Rome provincial election. [7] In 2004, the party took part in the European Parliament elections with a joint list (called "Abolizione Scorporo"), together with the Federalist Greens. [8] [9] The list got only 0.49% of the votes. [10]
At the 2004 Turin provincial election, the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Franco Botta; the founder Maurizio Lupi chose to run instead with an unrelated, independent list. [11]
In the 2005 Piedmontese regional elections, the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Enzo Ghigo; [12] the list got 1.16% of the votes, winning one seat for its leader Maurizio Lupi. [13] [1] In the 2006 general elections, the party ran as part of the House of Freedoms coalition, getting only 0.04% of the votes in the Chamber of Deputies election and 0.11% of votes in the Senate election. [14] [15] In the 2008 general elections, Alessandro Lupi ran for the Chamber as part of The People of Freedom list, but wasn't elected.[ citation needed ] In the 2009 Turin provincial election, the party supported the candidate Renzo Rabellino, leader of the No Euro Movement; the list got only 0.39% of the votes. [16] In the 2010 Piedmontese regional elections, the Greens Greens supported centre-right candidate Roberto Cota, getting 1.76% of the votes and one seat and outperforming for the first time[ citation needed ] the Federation of the Greens, which received only 0.76% of the votes. [17] In the 2014 Piedmontese regional elections, the party supported the candidate of Forza Italia Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, but got only 0.27% of the votes. [18]
In 2016, Maurizio Lupi and his daughter Sara were sentenced for expenditures fraud. [19] [20]
