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Also known as GL, GreenLeft

' (, , GL') is a green and social democratic political party in the Netherlands.

Key facts

Political party.country
the Netherlands
Political party.native_name
GroenLinks
Political party.native_name_lang
nl
Political party.abbreviation
GL
Political party.logo
GroenLinks logo (1994–present).svg
Political party.logo_size
250px
Political party.leader1_title
Leader
Political party.leader1_name
Jesse Klaver (list)
Political party.leader2_title
Chair
Political party.leader2_name
Katinka Eikelenboom
Political party.leader3_title
Leader in the Senate
Political party.leader4_title
Leader in the House of Representatives
Political party.leader5_title
Leader in the European Parliament
Political party.leader5_name
Bas Eickhout
Political party.merger
Rainbow: PSP, CPN, PPR and EVP
Political party.foundation
(as a party)
Political party.membership_year
2026
Political party.membership
62,766

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
political party
Headquarters
Utrecht
Official website
groenlinks.nl
Political ideology
progressivism
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Commons category
GroenLinks
topic's main category
Category:GroenLinks
inception
1990-11-24
party chief representative
Ria Beckers
short name
GL
IPv6 routing prefix
2001:41f0:413f::/48
political alignment
left-wing
sRGB color hex triplet
32CD32
youth wing
DWARS
social media followers
7550
member count
62766
number of seats in assembly
4
described at URL
dnpp.nl/pp/gl
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Encyclopedic overview

27 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Before 1989: predecessors
  • 1989–1994: completion of the merge and first term in parliament
  • 1994–2002: opposition during the purple cabinets
  • 2002–present
  • Ideology and issues
  • Ideology
  • Proposals
  • Election results
  • House of Representatives
  • Senate
  • European Parliament
  • Provincial
  • Representation
  • Members of the House of Representatives
  • Members of the Senate
  • Members of the European Parliament
  • Electorate
  • Style and campaign
  • Organisation
  • Name and logo
  • Organisational structure
  • Relationships with other parties
  • See also
  • References
  • Further reading
  • External links

' (, , GL') is a green and social democratic political party in the Netherlands.

It was formed on 1 March 1989 from the merger of four left-wing parties: the Communist Party of the Netherlands, the Pacifist Socialist Party, the Political Party of Radicals and the Evangelical People's Party, which shared left-wing and progressive ideals and had previously co-operated in the Rainbow coalition for the 1989 European Parliament election. After disappointing results in the 1989 and 1994 general election, the nascent party fared particularly well in the 1998 and 2002 elections under the leadership of Paul Rosenmöller, who came to be seen as the unofficial Leader of the Opposition against the first Kok cabinet, a purple government. The party's number of seats fell from 10 to 4 seats in the 2012 election, before increasing to 14 in 2017 and falling back to 8 in 2021.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “GroenLinks” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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