Greens Greens

The Greens Greens (Verdi Verdi) is a liberal-environmentalist political party in Italy. The party, predominantly active in Piedmont, does have not a central headquarters and it is instead characterized by a "family" management.[1]

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.

The party first ran candidates in the 1992 Italian general election. The party got 0.07% of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies and 0.09% in the Senate. In 1997, Lupi ran for mayor of Turin, receiving 0.7% of the vote, while his party got 0.8% of the vote.[2] In 1999, Lupi's brother, Alessandro, ran in the provincial election of Turin, getting 2% of the vote.

In 2003 its local exponent Roberto De Santis received 0.5% of the vote in the provincial election of Rome. In 2004, the party ran in Elections to the European Parliament with the Federalist Greens under the name "Abolizione Scorporo", which was already used in some divisions by the House of Freedoms in the 2001 general elections. the list got only 0.5% of the vote. In the 2004 provincial election of Turin the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate [[Franco Botta, while Lupi ran with its own independent list.

In the 2005 Piedmontese regional elections the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Enzo Ghigo; the list got 1.2% of the vote, winning one seat for its leader Maurizio Lupi. In the 2006 general elections the party ran as part of the House of Freedoms coalition, getting only 0.04% of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies election and 0.11% of vote in the Senate election. In the 2008 general elections Alessandro Lupi ran for the Chamber as part of The People of Freedom list, but wasn't elected. In the 2009 provincial election of Turin the party supported the candidate Renzo Rabellino, leader of the No Euro Movement; the list got only 0.38% of the vote. In the 2010 Piedmontese regional elections the Greens Greens supported centre-right candidate Roberto Cota, getting 1.76% of the vote and one seat. and outpreforming Federation of the Greens, who received only 0.76% of the vote, for the first time. In the 2014 Piedmontese regional elections the party supported the candidate of Forza Italia Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, but got only 0.27% of the vote.