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
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