Green Alternative Freiburg (german: Grüne Alternative Freiburg), GAF for short, is the name of a local political party in
Freiburg im Breisgau that split off from the
Greens in the City Council in 2008. The city councilors Monika Stein and Coinneach McCabe had already been displeased for quite some time with the policy of the greens which they consider to be somewhat undemocratic when they finally took the decision to leave that party and to found the new political group somewhat further to the left. The Greens filed a complaint against the use of the new name which was rejected by the local court on July 7, 2012. The appeal against this decision was rejected by the Higher Regional Court on December 18, 2013. Coinneach McCabe, the Scottish top candidate of the Green Alternative Freiburg, was born in
Glasgow
Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...
in 1974 and has been living in Freiburg since 1999.
[ Badish Newspaper of April 28, 2014]
Coinneach McCabe
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References
External links
Official website
2008 establishments in Germany
Freiburg im Breisgau
Green political parties in Germany
Political parties established in 2008
Politics of Baden-Württemberg
Regional parties in Germany
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