Green party to their charismatic leader Petra Kelly, a German who was of interest to the American media because she had an American step-father. Since its foundation in 1980 and merger with Alliance 90 after the German reunification, Kelly's party, now named Alliance '90/The Greens, has become one of Europe's most important Green parties. It played an important role in the formation of national-level Green parties in other countries such as Spain as well. The forerunner of the Green Party in the United Kingdom was the PEOPLE Party, formed in Coventry in 1972. It changed its name to the Ecology Party in
Avante (political party) representatives and 0.7% of the national vote (642,422 votes). At the 2014 election, the party won two seats and 0.85% of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies; it gained one seat following the defection of from the Social Christian Party. The party has 534 local councillors and controls 26 mayoralties. PTdoB voted in favor of the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff. In 2017, PTdoB changed its name to AVANTE, Portuguese for Forward. For the Brazilian general election of 2018 AVANTE joined the coalition "Sovereign Brazil", together with the Democratic Labour Party, in support of PTD candidate Ciro Gomes. Gomes obtained