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
Andalusian Party Andalusian Party The Andalusian Party (, PA) was an Andalusian nationalist-regionalist centre-left political party from Andalusia (Spain), with an important presence in provinces such as Cádiz and Seville although in the past they have stood in other provinces and even won seats in Barcelona to the Parliament of Catalonia. The party was founded as the Socialist Alliance of Andalusia () in 1965 by Alejandro Rojas-Marcos. In 1976 it took the name Socialist Party of Andalusia (). In 1979 the name was changed to Socialist Party of Andalusia - Andalusian Party (). The PA party name was adopted in 1984. Its