The Greens Greens (''Verdi Verdi'') is a liberal-environmentalist

political party in Italy This article contains a list of political parties in Italy since Italian unification in 1861. Throughout history, numerous political parties have been operating in Italy, and since World War II no party has ever gained enough support to govern ...

. The party is predominantly active in

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. The party was founded in January 1991 by

Maurizio Lupi Maurizio Lupi (born 3 October 1959) is an Italian politician. He served as minister of infrastructure and transport between 28 April 2013 and 20 March 2015. Early life and education Lupi was born in Milan, Italy, on 3 October 1959. He has a deg ...

, a physical education teacher and former member of

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and of

Federation of the Greens The Federation of the Greens ( it, Federazione dei Verdi, FdV), frequently referred to as Greens (''Verdi''), was a green political party in Italy. It was formed in 1990 by the merger of the Federation of Green Lists and the Rainbow Greens. T ...

. The party took part in Italian elections for the first time at the 1992 general election. The party got 0.07% of the vote in the

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and 0.09% in the

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. In 1997, Lupi ran as mayor of

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, receiving 0.74% of the votes, while his party got 0.81% of the votes. In 1999, the party ran in Turin provincial election, getting 0.38% of the votes. In 2003, the party's local representative Roberto De Santis received 0.5% of the votes in

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provincial election. In 2004, the party took part in the

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with a joint list (called "Abolizione Scorporo"), together with the

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. The list got only 0.49% of the votes. At the 2004 Turin provincial election, the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Franco Botta; the founder Maurizio Lupi chose to run instead with an unrelated, independent list. In the

2005 Piedmontese regional election The 2005 Piedmontese regional election took place on 3–4 April 2005. Mercedes Bresso of the Democrats of the Left defeated the incumbent Enzo Ghigo of Forza Italia. Electoral system Regional elections in Piedmont were ruled by the Tatarella ...

s, the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate

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; the list got 1.16% of the votes, winning one seat for its leader Maurizio Lupi. In the 2006 general elections, the party ran as part of the

House of Freedoms The House of Freedoms ( it, Casa delle Libertà, CdL) was a major centre-right political and electoral alliance in Italy, led by Silvio Berlusconi. History The CdL was the successor of the Pole of Freedoms/Pole of Good Government and the Pole fo ...

coalition, getting only 0.04% of the votes in the Chamber of Deputies election and 0.11% of votes in the Senate election. In the 2008 general elections, Alessandro Lupi ran for the Chamber as part of

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list, but wasn't elected. In the 2009 Turin provincial election, the party supported the candidate

Renzo Rabellino Renzo Rabellino (born in Turin on September 12, 1958) is the leader of the No Euro Movement, a political party in Italy that advocates the return of the Italian lira for the Italian currency and government control of the central bank. Elected in 1 ...

, leader of the

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; the list got only 0.39% of the votes. In the

2010 Piedmontese regional election The Piedmontese regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010, as part of Italy's round of regional elections. The incumbent President of the Region, Mercedes Bresso of the centre-left Democratic Party, lost her seat to Roberto Co ...

s, the Greens Greens supported centre-right candidate

Roberto Cota Roberto Cota (born 13 July 1968 in Novara) is an Italian politician, President of Piedmont from 2010 to 2014. After a degree in law, Cota joined the party in 1990. In 2000 he was elected to the Regional Council of Piedmont and was President of ...

, getting 1.76% of the votes and one seat and outperforming for the first time the

, which received only 0.76% of the votes. In the

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s, the party supported the candidate of

Forza Italia Forza ItaliaThe name is not usually translated into English: ''forza'' is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Ital ...

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, but got only 0.27% of the votes. In 2016, Maurizio Lupi and his daughter Sara were sentenced for expenditures fraud.

External links

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References

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