Green party environmental significance. The first green party in Europe was the Popular Movement for the Environment, founded in 1972 in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel. The first national green party in Europe was PEOPLE, founded in Britain in February 1973, which eventually turned into the Ecology Party, and then the Green Party. Several other local political groups were founded in beginning of the 1970s and Fons Sprangers was probably the first Green mayor in the world, elected in 1970 in Meer, and active until 2006 for the Flemish Greens. The first political party to use the name "Green" seems to have
Christian Labour Party Christian Labour Party The Christian Labour Party (; PTC), formerly named National Reconstruction Party (; PRN), is a liberal-conservative political party in Brazil. The party was founded in 1985 as Youth Party ("Partido da Juventude", PJ) by Daniel Tourinho, a Brazilian lawyer. In 1989 the party was renamed National Reconstruction Party. Fernando Collor de Mello representing this party was elected president in 1990. After Collor's impeachment in 1992 the party suffered a deep crisis and eventually changed its name to "Partido Trabalhista Cristão" in 2000. In 2016 Collor de Mello (now a senator) re-joined PTC, which thus regained parliamentary representation.