The Green Party: A Political Party Overview and Analysis

The Green Party is the youngest party in Demarcian politics. Founded in October 2020, it has shook the Demarcian political system with a surprise win in the November 2020 presidential election, which was won by MikeBodwin who ousted the Social Democratic Party's Vincent_Wolff, ending their uninterrupted 9 months holding the presidency.

The Green Party was born out of MikeBodwin's desire to carve his own destiny, separate from the Demarcian National Party; he both had grievances with the party itself, as well as wanted to have his own party entirely based on and inspired by his ideology and his beliefs - that being green politics and environmentalism.

The Green Party never won more than 22% of the vote in any parliamentary election to date, but it has played an important role in Demarcia anyway; from November 2020 to February 2021 they alone governed the country, and from May 2021 to August 2021 they governed together in a pact with the Social Democrats.

There apparently were hopes inside the Green Party that the amity with the Social Democrats would lead to something bigger and new; an alliance with the Social Democrats, a sort of left-wing national alliance, the vanguard that would take Demarcia into a brighter future, as opposed to conservatives who would want to reverse progress made. Instead, those hopes were completely dashed as the Social Democrats and Green Party fell out following the August 2021 election; the two parties had never been further apart from each other.

However, in reality, in terms of their political philosophies, they remain quite similar. They both have the same commitments to the values of liberty, equality and justice, that share a strong desire to bring about security and help for everybody, and they both have a desire for a clean environment and for clean energy; indeed, environmentalism is the Green Party's shtick, and the Social Democrats' Environmental Protection Act was borderline revolutionary.

The differences aren't quite obvious at first glance, but they are present in the roots of the two parties. The two parties hail from two different ideological traditions.

Whereas the Social Democrats hail from the socialist family of political ideologies, the Green Party is an amalgamation of different ideological groups that all share a strong passion for the conservation of the environment and protection of the natural habitat. The Green Party's roots lie in a distinct green political family, and it is not concerned so much with broad details of economic policies as much as it is interested in whether they serve the goals of a healthier environment, cleaner energy production and the fight against climate change.

This is something that is quite important to note; the Green Party isn't just the Social Democrats coloured green. They are a distinct political tradition in their own right.

The political tradition the Greens hail from has its roots in the social justice movements of the 1970s. One of the first Green parties in the world is the German Greens. Today, they are perhaps the single most notable, influential and powerful green party, and they are likely set to nearly double their percentage of support in this month's upcoming German federal elections; there's a strong chance of them even winning the chancellor position, or ending up in government at least as a junior partner.

Given that the German Greens are one of the "original" green parties, it is obvious that the Demarcian Greens share some deal of inspiration from them. However, there are stark differences between the two parties on some crucial issues.

The most glaring difference between the German Greens and Demarcian Greens is that the German Greens are rigidly, almost dogmatically, anti-nuclear energy, while the Demarcian Greens have not only gone as far as advocating for Demarcia to utilise nuclear energy, but have even advocated developing nuclear weapons, an idea vehemently rejected by the Social Democrats but previously pondered by Vincent_Wolff, the current Demarcian National Party leader, on an individual level.

Additionally, the Demarcian Greens in recent months have to started to place a greater emphasis on military and defence issues rather than environmental issues. This is in contrast to the German Greens, who have historically been strongly pacifist in nature and, although they have moderated their positions on foreign policy and defence lately, are still very focused on environmental issues and not distracted by military-related issues.

Likewise, the Demarcian Greens don't share quite the same stances as the English and Welsh Greens either on nuclear and defence issues; the Green Party of England and Wales advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament in the United Kingdom. Additionally, it has consistently opposed military interventionism abroad, as opposed to the Demarcian Greens, who seem to have a quite hawkish and enthusiastic stance towards military engagement abroad.

It is not quite clear why the Demarcian Greens share such rapid disagreements with most European green parties on these issues. One reason why might be the fact that they split from the Demarcian National Party, historically a liberal or liberal-conservative party rather than a left-wing party. As a result, the Green Party in Demarcia might have a more right-leaning perspective when it comes to nuclear, military and defence issues.

All in all, however, it is very clear where the Green Party is ideologically. It is a firmly green, environmentalist political party with very clear roots and a very clear purpose. It would feel firmly at home with green parties around the world, despite some notable differences, as they still share most things in common with them.

It remains to be seen whether the Green Party will stay in place over the next few months, or whether it will drift towards different positions; perhaps even eventually take a new form, or adopt a specific variant of green ideology rather than the big tent one it has right now (for instance - will it adopt green conservatism, or will it go for green liberalism? how about eco-socialism? and so on).

Demarcian Inquirer Team