Green Party (2019)

The Green Party of Adoria is one of the original parties that have been on the simulator since the beggining. It is a left-wing progressive party focused on green politics that advocates for social and environmental equality including a progressive tax, free public healthcare, and a pacifist foreign policy.

The Green Party was a part of the left-wing coalition called Progressive Coalition.

## Policies

The Green party is especially, but not only, focused on green policies to protect the environment. For example, it has proposed a number of bills to start a transition to alternative energies.

Apart from that, it has also made a series of bills abou healthcare such as a public healthcare plan that made healthcare universal and regulated euthanasia.

Other policies, as written in their manifesto, include: environmental education, free electric public transport, a carbon tax, ending workplace harassment for women, a minimum wage tied to inflation and decriminalization of drugs.

## Leadership

### **Leaders**

The current leader of the green party is Art, who had been party Speaker, since Octo17 resigned on 28 July 2019. Art later faced Jimmi Mahfety in a leadership election on 2 August. Art has served as deputy prime minister to PM Arjona after the 3rd and 4th elections.

###  **Vice-leaders**

The party's first VP was Carl Yaeger but he later became inactive, left the server and elections were called. Brian.org and Ravenhead were the candidates in the election that Brian won 12 to 7 votes. However, Brian left the server and a new deputy leader election was called by Art for 12 August. This one was the most contested election ever in the party with 4 candidates. Thew winner of that election is the current deputy leader of the party and former health and homeland security minister, Ravenhead.

### **Party Speakers**

Art was the first Speaker of the Green Party since its beggining. He worked in the job during Octo17's leadership and left the job when he became party leader. After that, there was no Speaker until 19 August when Art and deputy leader Ravenhead, gave Txominvc, the party whip at the time, the Speaker position.

### **Whip**​​​​​​

Ravenhead was chosen as the first party Whip by Octo17, who was leader back then. After that, Ravenhead left the position when he won the vicelead ership election in mid-august. Party leader Art appointed Txominvc as the new whip. However, he left the job when the party leadership appointed him Speaker of the party and Alixxa took the job on 25 August.

## Electoral results

### **1st election**

The Green Party of Adoria got 8 seats out of 80 in the first elections. That got them to be the seventh most voted party and tied in seats with the SDP. The Green Party stood in opposition to the centre-right government that was formed after the election and got into the Democratic Coalition with Liberal Democrats, SDP and Third Way (nowadays CFA).

### **2nd election**

The Green Party saw an increase in votes and seats being the fourth most voted party with 12 seats out of a total of 100. The Democratic Coalition continued in opposition to the Libertarian-National Conservative-Balkan right-wing government.

### **3rd election**

The Green Party continued to grow in the third elections getting 13 seats, one more hn in the preious election. This time, the Democratic Coalition formed a government headed by Liberal Democrats' leader Arjona getting the Green Party to hold several positions such as, Deputy Prime Minister, Environment Minister, Energy Minister and Health Minister.

### **4th election**

The fourth election was the best one for the Green Party. The party got 16 seats and became the biggest party that ran in the elections. The Democratic Coalition continued in government headed by Arjona with 7 Green Party ministers.

### **5th election**

The fifth election saw the dissolving of the Democratic Coalition due to the SDP running together with Democratic Left and People's Union and the dissappearing of the Liberal Democrats following a scandal involving PM Arjona. The election caused the Green Party to lose a seat even though it continued to be the largest single party and the third most voted option in the election [United Right (Fascists+Gamer Party) was first and United Left (SDP+PU+DL) was second]. The Green Party now stands in opposition to the United Right+Conservatives government within the Progressive Coalition (DL,SDP,PU and Green Party).

### **Presidential elections**

The Green Party didn't run any candidate in the first presidential election supporting the Democratic Coalition candidate, NineTails (LibDem). However, Jimmy Mahfety stood as the Green Party presidential candidate in the second presidential election on 31 August. His candidacy was supported by the whole Progressive Coalition and finished in third place after Libertarian Party candidate BluXtreme and Independent candidate Arjona.