Green League | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 02/06/2019

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00:02:04 1 History
00:02:13 1.1 Founding
00:03:23 1.2 Early activities (1983-1994)
00:04:07 1.3 As part of the Lipponen Cabinets (1995-2003)
00:04:59 1.4 Growth to mainstream appeal (2003-present)
00:07:17 2 Ideology and policies
00:08:30 3 Elections results
00:08:39 3.1 Parliamentary elections
00:08:49 3.2 Municipal elections
00:08:58 3.3 European Parliament elections
00:09:08 3.4 Presidential elections
00:09:47 4 Politicians
00:09:57 4.1 List of party chairs
00:10:06 4.2 Current members of Parliament
00:10:24 4.3 Current members of the European Parliament
00:10:41 5 See also



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The Green League (VIHR, Finnish: Vihreä liitto, Swedish: Gröna förbundet), shortened to the Greens, is a green political party in Finland. The Green League is among the largest political parties in Finland. The Greens hold twenty seats in the Finnish Parliament and one in the European Parliament. The party is a member of the Global Greens and the European Green Party, while its MEP, Heidi Hautala, sits with The Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. Originally split on whether Finland should join the European Union, the Green League is pro-European and was the first Finnish party in favor of the federalisation of the European Union.Founded in 1987, the party absorbed a number of green organisations and their members, including four MPs elected in 1987. The party won ten seats in the 1991 election. Despite falling to nine seats in 1995 election, Pekka Haavisto joined Paavo Lipponen's first cabinet, which was composed of a rainbow coalition. This move made the Green League the first green party in a national cabinet. The party remained in government until 2002, when it resigned from the cabinet in opposition to nuclear power. In 2007, the party peaked at 15 seats, and joined the centre-right-led government. At the 2011 election, the party fell to ten seats. Nevertheless, the Greens were invited to join the six-party Katainen Cabinet. In the 2015 parliamentary election, the party returned to its previous best of 15 seats, and at 8.53%, achieved their best ever share of the overall vote. 
Since November 2018, the party’s leader and chairman has been Pekka Haavisto. The party is in opposition, and has provided vast criticism regarding the actions of the incumbent right-wing Sipilä Cabinet such as financial support for economically well-off companies, Fortum's purchase of Uniper, and the expedited process of constitution-changing surveillance laws.