Alliance 90/The Greens

Alliance 90/The Greens Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
Co-Leaders	Ricarda Lang Omid Nouripour
Parliamentary leaders	Katharina Dröge Britta Haßelmann
Founded	14 May 1993
Merger of	The Greens Green Party Alliance 90
Headquarters	Platz vor dem Neuen Tor 1 10115 Berlin
Youth wing	Green Youth
Membership (Dec. 2022)	126,451[1]
Ideology	Green politics Social liberalism
Political position	Centre-left[under discussion]
European affiliation	European Green Party
International affiliation	Global Greens
European Parliament group	Greens/EFA
Colours	Green
Bundestag	118 / 736
Bundesrat	12 / 69
State Parliaments	320 / 1,894
European Parliament	21 / 96
Heads of State Governments	1 / 16
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Website
www.gruene.de
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Alliance 90/The Greens (German: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, pronounced [ˈbʏntnɪs ˈnɔʏntsɪç diː ˈɡʁyːnən] ^ⓘ), often simply referred to as the Greens^[a] (Grüne, pronounced [ˈɡʁyːnə] ^ⓘ), is a green political party in Germany.^[2] 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.^[3]

Since January 2022, Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour have been co-leaders of the party. It currently holds 118 of the 736 seats in the Bundestag, having won 14.8% of votes cast in the 2021 federal election, and its parliamentary group is the third largest of six. 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 since the 2021 German federal election. 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 all of Germany's state legislatures, except the Saarland, and is a member of coalition governments in eleven 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.^[1]

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