The Green Party - The Greens (Romanian: Partidul Verde), often shortened to The Greens (Romanian: Verzii) is a Romanian political party and member of the Alliance AER for Romania, that ideologically follows green politics^[11] and environmentalism.^[12][13] It is currently led by co-Presidents Marius Lazăr and Lavinia Cosma. The Green Party is the only political party in Romania that is a member of the European Green Party (EGP). Thus, it is a full rights member of the European Green Party (EGP),^[14] represented by the Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.

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Green Party - The Greens Partidul Verde (Verzii)[lower-alpha 1]
President	Lavinia Cosma Marius Lazăr
Founded	November 2005 (originally) Re-established in September 2022 as Green Party (Greens)
Headquarters	Str. Cuțitul de Argint nr. 8, Sector 4 Bucharest
Think tank	Institutul Verde
Youth wing	Tinerii Verzi (i.e. Young Greens)
Membership (2022)	cca. 4,400 [1]
Ideology	Green politics Green conservatism[2][3] Pro-Europeanism[4] Anti-corruption[5] Big tent[6][7][8]
Political position	Centre[9] to left-wing[10]
National affiliation	AER for Romania (since 2023)
European affiliation	European Green Party
International affiliation	Global Greens
Colours	Green
Slogan	Toți pentru Verde. Verzii pentru Toți!
Senate	0 / 136
Chamber of Deputies	0 / 330
European Parliament	0 / 33
County Councils	0 / 1,340
Mayors	2 / 3,176
Local councils	117 / 39,900
Website
http://www.partidulverdeverzii.ro
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Partidul Verde - Verzii is a party that has a socially moderate-conservative ideology^[15][16] and from an economic point of view it is from the centre to the left-wing, being among the few center-left political organizations in Romania.^[17][18] Before the 2022 Congress, the party was economically much more center-right.

Environment and green economy

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The Greens consider that the budgetary and private financial flows invested in industries with high carbon dioxide emissions are today greater than the budgetary and private financial flows intended for adaptation to climate change and the successful green transition.^[19]

They support the participation and representation of young people in democratic and decision-making processes at all levels, i.e. by having children involved in the evaluation and formulation of policies through dialogue with experienced people and by organizing debating groups in schools, high schools and universities.

They also support the right to vote from the age of 16 for all types of elections.

Young Greens (Romanian: Tinerii Verzi) is the youth organisation of the Green Party.

Tinerii Verzi, are the only youth organization with a left-green orientation in Romania and also the first to emphasize social and environmental justice.

The organization was founded in March 2022. On August 15, 2022, the first General Assembly of Young Greens took place. In the AG, the statute, the program were validated and the members of the National Bureau were elected.

Young Greens have become candidate members of the Federation of Young European Greens, the youth organization of the European Green Party in May 2023.

On May 24, the Young Green Congress elected Bogdan Dumitraș and Miruna Necula as co-presidents. Later, during June, Miruna Necula was dismissed from the leadership of the organization.

At the moment, the Co-Presidents of the Young Greens are Bogdan Dumitraș (Satu Mare) and Catalina Barzu (Iași), National Coordinator Daria Radovan (Sibiu) and General Secretary Angelo Stanca (Satu Mare).

The Green Youth Organization is a founding member of the AER for Youth organization - the youth organization of the AER pentru România.

The Green Party was founded in November 2005 by Gheorghe Ionicescu, after the merger of FER and AP was revoked.^[28] Ecologist Federation of Romania (FER) was previously founded in 1990 and is the predecessor of the Green Party. He participated in the presidential election in 2009, supporting the candidacy of Remus Cernea. Also in 2009, Ionicescu died, and Silviu Popa was appointed as a chairperson of the Green Party to replace Ionicescu. Popa was validated at the party congress on 26 September 2009 and resigned in early 2012.

At the local elections held in 2012, the Green Party gained 2 mayors (Iclănzel - Mureş and Azuga - Prahova) and 124 local councilors, with 0.87% of the votes at national level. In the 2012, at the parliamentary elections, the Green Party had two MPs (Ovidiu Iane and Remus Cernea) on the USL lists.

On 13 May 2013, in the context of the public debate on the exploration and exploitation of shale gas, the Green Party is drifted apart the SLU's position and remains consistent with environmental principles, according to the press release: "We oppose to the shale gas, mining operations at Rosia Montana (Roșia Montană), we are extremely concerned that within the SLU there are more and more opinions and intentions to go ahead, to move towards such projects on shale gas and cyanide. Under these conditions, we cannot continue the collaboration with SLU because we would support such a political direction."

"The Green Party begins a new political path on September 3, 2022. A new team! A new center-left political program! A new approach! At the Dalles Hall in Bucharest, starting at 12.00, the Extraordinary Congress of the Green Party (Greens) will take place. A new statute, a new political program and a new leadership team will be submitted for debate and adoption.

They will apply for the positions of co-presidents: Marius Lazăr – political scientist, and Lavinia Cosma- counselor for vocational guidance, ex-USR parliamentarian, and for that of executive president - Adrian Dohotaru, environmental activist -ex- USR parliamentarian."

On 27 May 2023, an Extraordinary Congress took place in Busteni where Marius Lazar and Lavinia Cosma were re-elected as co-presidents of the Green Party (Greens).^[29][30][31]

On June 19, 2023, the National Permanent Bureau of the Party decided to exclude former general secretary Silviu Dumitru from the party due to his serious violation of the statute.^[32]

On December 9, 2023, an Extraordinary Congress of the party took place, through which it reconfirmed the election of Marius Lazăr and Lavinia Cosma as Co-Presidents of The Greens. The Congress also approved the establishment of the AER for Romania Alliance between The Greens and the Ecologist Party of Romania.

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