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Alliance 90/The Greens

Alliance 90/The Greens
Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
Co-leaders
Parliamentary leaders
Founded
  • 13 January 1980
    (The Greens)
  • 21 September 1991
    (Alliance 90)
  • 14 May 1993
    (merger)
Merger of
HeadquartersPlatz vor dem Neuen Tor 1
10115 Berlin
Youth wingGreen Youth
Membership (February 2025)Increase 166,000[1][2][3]
IdeologyGreen politics
Social liberalism
Political positionCentre-left[8][A]
European affiliationEuropean Green Party
European Parliament groupGreens/EFA
International affiliationGlobal Greens
Colours  Green
Bundestag
85 / 630
Bundesrat
12 / 69
State Parliaments
320 / 1,894
European Parliament
12 / 96
Heads of State Governments
1 / 16
Party flag
Website
www.gruene.de Edit this at Wikidata
^ A: The Greens originated as a left-wing protest party in the 1980s but have since evolved into a centre-left party, especially after merging with Alliance 90 in 1993.[9]

Alliance 90/The Greens (German: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, pronounced [ˈbʏntnɪs ˈnɔʏntsɪç diː ˈɡʁyːnən] ⓘ), often simply referred to as Greens[a] (Grüne, pronounced [ˈɡʁyːnə] ⓘ), is a green political party in Germany.[10] It was formed in 1993 by the merger of the Greens (formed in West Germany in 1980) and Alliance 90 (formed in East Germany in 1990). The Greens had itself merged with the East German Green Party after German reunification in 1990.[11]

Since November 2024, Franziska Brantner and Felix Banaszak have been co-leaders of the party. It currently holds 85 of the 630 seats in the Bundestag, having won 11% of first votes and 11.6% of second votes cast in the 2025 federal election, putting it in fourth place of the seven political parties by number of seats.[12] Its parliamentary co-leaders are Britta Haßelmann and Katharina Dröge. The Greens have been part of the federal government twice: first as a junior partner to the Social Democrats (SPD) from 1998 to 2005, and then with the SPD and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) in the traffic light coalition from the 2021 election until that coalition's collapse in 2024. In the incumbent Scholz cabinet, the Greens have five ministers, including Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

The party holds seats in most of Germany's state legislatures, except Saarland, Thuringia and Brandenburg, and is a member of coalition governments in seven states. Winfried Kretschmann, Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, is the only Green head of government in Germany. The Landtag of Baden-Württemberg is also the only state legislature in which Alliance 90/The Greens is the largest party; it is the second largest party in the legislatures of Berlin, Hamburg, and Schleswig-Holstein.

Alliance 90/The Greens is a founding member of the European Green Party and the Greens–European Free Alliance group in the European Parliament. It is currently the largest party in the G/EFA group, with 21 MEPs. In the 2019 European election, Alliance 90/The Greens was the second largest party in Germany, winning 20.5% of votes cast. The party had 126,451 members in December 2022, making it the fourth largest party in Germany by membership.[13]

  1. ^ "Linkspartei meldet Mitgliederrekord". tagesschau.de (in German). Retrieved 17 February 2025.
  2. ^ zeit.de (1 March 2024). "Grüne verzeichnen starken Mitgliederzuwachs". Die Zeit (in German). Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  3. ^ tagesspiegel.de (1 March 2024). "Nach Mitgliederschwund im Jahr 2023: Grüne verzeichnen stärkste Eintrittswelle der Parteigeschichte". Der Tagesspiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 22 June 2024.
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  8. ^ [4][5][6][7]
  9. ^ "Etappen der Parteigeschichte der GRÜNEN (Stages in the history of the Green party)". bpb.de. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. 6 February 2023.
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference Nordsieck was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ "Etappen der Parteigeschichte der GRÜNEN". Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
  12. ^ "Results Germany". bundeswahlleiterin.de. The Federal Returning Officer. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
  13. ^ tagesschau.de (1 March 2023). "So viele Grüne "wie nie zuvor"" (in German). Retrieved 1 March 2023.


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