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
Maki (political party) the original Maki had disappeared after merging into Ratz in 1981. In 1989, members of Rakah decided to change the party's name to Maki to reflect their status as the only official communist party in Israel. The party remains the leading force in Hadash to this day, and owns the Al-Ittihad newspaper. It currently has four members in the 20th Knesset, as part of the Joint List. Maki (political party) The Israeli Communist Party ( "HaMiflega HaKomunistit HaYisra'elit", "Al-Ḥizb ash-Shuyū'ī al-'Isrā'īlī"), commonly referred to by its Hebrew acronym Maki (), is a communist political party in Israel and forms part