The Green Party in Northern Ireland (Irish: Comhaontas Glas i dTuaisceart Éireann) is the Northern Ireland region of the Green Party in Ireland, based on the principles of green politics. It works in co-operation with green parties across Britain and Ireland and in Europe and was formerly a party in its own right. Like many green parties around the world, the Green Party in Northern Ireland have their origins in the anti-nuclear, labour and peace movements of the 1970s and early 1980s.
In 2007, the first Green MLA Brian Wilson was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly, representing North Down. In the European Election of 2009, Steven Agnew stood for the Green Party and managed to triple its vote from 4,800 votes in the 2004 European Parliament election to 15,674 votes. The Greens fought the election on the Green New Deal, calling for job creation in the green energy sector.
The party voted to become a region of the Green Party in Ireland in 2005 at its annual convention, and again in a postal ballot in March 2006. The party has a youth wing operating in Northern Ireland, the Young Greens.
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