Greens Greens

The Greens Greens (Verdi Verdi) is a liberal-environmentalist political party in Italy. The party, active above all in Piedmont, does have not a central headquarters and it is instead characterized by a "family" management.[1] The logo of the party is a bear that laughs and that greets.

The party was founded in January 1991 by Maurizio Lupi, a physical education teacher and former member of Christian Democracy and of Federation of the Greens.

The party ran for the first time in a general election in 1992. The party got 0.07% of the vote in the Chamber election and the 0.09% in the Senate election. In 1997 Maurizio Lupi ran for mayor of Turin receiving 0.7% of the vote, while the Greens Greens list got 0.8% of the vote.[2] In 1999 the brother of Maurizio Lupi, Alessandro, ran in the provincial election of Turin, getting 2% of the vote.

In 2003 its local exponent Roberto De Santis received 0.5% of the vote in the provincial election of Rome. In 2004 the party ran in the European elections with the Federalist Greens under the logo of "Abolizione Scorporo", which was already used in some divisions by the House of Freedoms in the 2001 general elections. Anyway, the list got only 0.5% of the vote. In the 2004 provincial election of Turin the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Franco Botta, while Maurizio Lupi ran with its own independent list.

In the 2005 Piedmontese regional elections the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Enzo Ghigo; the list got 1.2% of the vote, winning one seat for its leader Maurizio Lupi. In the 2006 general elections the party ran into the House of Freedoms coalition, getting only 0.04% of the vote in the Chamber election and 0.11% of vote in the Senate election. In the 2008 general elections Alessandro Lupi ran for the Chamber into The People of Freedom list, but he wasn't elected. In the 2009 provincial election of Turin the party supported the candidate Renzo Rabellino, leader of the No Euro Movement; the list got only 0.38% of the vote. In the 2010 Piedmontese regional elections the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Roberto Cota, getting 1.76% of the vote and one seat. For the first time in its history the Greens Greens got a better result than the Federation of the Greens, that received only 0.76% of the vote. In the 2014 Piedmontese regional elections the party supported the candidate of Forza Italia Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, but it got only 0.27% of the vote.