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
Castilian Party name of "Castilian Party-Party of the cultures of Catalonia". In the Spanish general election 2011, the party ran for the election in association with the Cantabrian Regionalist Party. Since the party creation, there were two very different political currents: one a lot more official (which supported the union of the whole of Castile), and another much proner to regionalist ideas (which supported the political reality in force). During the party congress in October 2011, a majority of party members unanimously approved a new sort of political strategy and changed the former name "Party of Castile and León" for simply the