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
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.