Green Party Taiwan challenged for by-Election of national Parliament

Calvin Wen, Secretar-General of Green Party Taiwan challenged
as a candidate for national by-election from the Taipei City No.6 District,
held on March 28.

The result of the District was that the candidate from the ruling party
(Taiwan National Party)got 46% and won the seat. The first opposition
Democratic Progress Party lost by 38% voting rate.
Calvin Wen, Green Party won 1,058 votes (1.12%).

Results:
http://www.nownews.com/2009/03/28/11490-2429106.htm

Queensland Greens celebrated most successful Election Campaign

For the first time ever, the Queensland Greens (Australia) had a candidate in every seat at the State Election on March 21 - all 89 electorates had a Greens candidate to choose.
State-wide, one in twelve Queenslanders (8.2%) voted "1" for the Greens.
Unfortunately the Queensland electoral system means that these voters will remain unrepresented in the Parliament.
In two seats, the Greens candidate received over 20% of the vote - Ronan Lee in Indooroopilly received 25.5% and Larissa Waters in Mount Coot-tha received 22.9%.

The Candidates for State Election 2009 in every district
http://qld.greens.org.au/election/candidates

The Greens Election Launch 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMyh0-VdUxs

Green Party Taiwan Protested against Removal of Old Trees

On 27 February, Mr. Calvin Wen, Secretary-general of Green Party Taiwan and its official candidate for the Taipei City No. 6 District by-election, spent 26 hours in a camphor tree on the site of the Old Songshan Tobacco Factory in Taipei to protest and prevent its removal.

The protest began on Friday afternoon as Green Party Taiwan members discovered the last tree was about to be removed.

Calvin was able to climb the tree with assistance from several other Green Party members who were then removed from the site by police. An agreement was later reached with police to allow four people to accompany Calvin at the base of the tree. The Green Party argued that the removal of the tree was illegal as the the second environmental impact assessment for the site had not yet passed.

The detail article is :

http://blog.taiwan-guide.org/2009/03/green-party-protests-to-save-tree/

Mongolian Green Party won a seat in the National Parliament

Mongolia, where national election was held in June 2008, thereafter only the seat of 25 election constituency was still not determined due to the suspicion of false vote count.

However, in January 2009, the tentative result of votes was adopted for 4 seats, and D.Enkhbat, the leader of Mogolian Green Party won the last seat officially.

In the last year's national election of Mongolia, Mongolian Green Party made a coaliton with Civil Movement Party, then they did the campaign under the name of "Civil Movement Coalition".

http://ubpost.mongolnews.mn/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1343&Itemid=37

Article of D. Enkhbat's media interview (english) :

http://www.mongolia-investment.com/news/political-news/interview:-mr.-d.-enkhbat:-it's-a-real-danger-when-ruling-parties-consolidate/

The Mongolian Green Party declears that they will stand their original candidate for Mongolian Presidential Election, held in May 2009.

http://en.news.mn/news/2239

Reference: the official Website of Mongolian Green Party:

http://www.greenparty.mn/

APGN new Membership was determined in GG2008

Global Greens 2008 in Brazil, held May 1-4 was a big event, where about 1,000 participants from all over the world got together, holding plenary sessions, workshops, regional meetings etc.
There also APGN official meeting was held on the 1st day of the Conference.

According to the review by Membership Panels (consist of 6 members), the following Green groups were adopted as a new Membership qualification.

Full Membership Group

Australian Greens
Green Party of Taiwan
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Ecolo Japan
Greens Japan*
Kanagawa Network Movement
Korea Greens
Pakistan Green Party ( Pakistan Greens)

* "Rainbow and Greens"(niji to midori) merged with Greens Japan in 2008.

Associate Membership Group

Nature Conservation Party, Nepal
Mongolian National Green Movement
MAOHI GREENS

Friend of the APGN

PNG Greens
CHINA GREEN PARTY
Federation for a Democratic China Australia


The whole process and issues were approved by the participatns of the APGN meeting in Sao Paulo.

Green Manifesto Campaign 2007

ECOLO Japan evaluated all candidates for the national election 2007
in terms of environmental achievements

July. 27, 2007


”Who is a real candidate that has been involved in ecology ?”　　 　　
”Who is to be the most environmental-friendly candidate at all ? ”　 　　　

In order to show the correct answer to voters,　ECOLO Japan, a nationwide Green policy network for sustainable society did ”Green Manifesto Campaign 2007” for the latest
national election of Japan.

ECOLO Japan tried to evaluate all candidates for the national election for the Upper House (Senate) in Japan, held in July 2007, in terms of their enviornmental achievements.
This campaign was very successful and was reported by leading Press and big mass media
as well: Sankei Press, Sankei Express, Asahi Press, Nikkei Press, Kyoto Press, Enviroasia etc.　　　　

There they analysed candidates' previous achievements, activities in terms of environmental　　　　　field. Then they selected environmental policies in their election pledges, evaluating all in total with additional points, finally grading them (like AAA, AA, A) to announce officially on their website, classifying by their belonging party.　

"The results were not expectable, because there proved to be a huge score gap between the top 30-40 candidates and the others" so said Mr. Shuji Imamoto, the chairperson of ECOLO Japan. 　　　　　

"This shows how few politicians are really interested in environmental issues in Japan,.　　　　　 although climate crisis is now advancing very rapidly and seriously."　
"It was a pity that not many candidates had taken up environmental issues as their election 　　　　　 pledges --- mostly their interest is devoted to social security issues --- pension, employment,　　　　　 child care, less salaly and highly taxiation etc."　
"Most candidates' election pledges were only abstract slogans, which had no concrete ideas, methods nor process." Mr. Imamoto said ironically.　　　　　　　 　　　

ECOLO Japan attempted to show voters who should be most environmental friendly candidates and who should be worth being voted, particularly for ecologists and environmental acitivists.

　
Website of Green Manifesto Campaign 2007　　　　　　　
Score Ranking of the 30 most environmental-friendly candidates in the Japan national election 2007