PEOPLE Party as the party of environmental concern. Party co-founder Tony Whittaker noted in an interview with Derek Wall '… voters did not connect PEOPLE with ecology. What I wanted was something that the media could look up in their files so that, when they wanted a spokesman of the issue of ecology, they could find the Ecology Party and pick up the phone. It was as brutal and basic as that. PEOPLE didn't communicate what we had hoped it would communicate'. Derek Wall, in his history of the Green Party, contends that the new political movement focused initially on the theme
Groen (political party) Green parties, especially the German Alliance '90/The Greens, which has also been in government, although more successfully. Groen (political party) Groen (English: Green; , ), founded as Agalev (see name-section below), is a green political party in Belgium. Groen is often the smallest Flemish party represented in the federal, regional or European parliament. Its French-speaking equivalent is Ecolo; the two parties maintain close relations with each other. Many of the founders of political party Agalev came from or were inspired by the social movement Agalev. This movement was founded by the Jesuit Luc Versteylen, who had founded the environmental movement