Green Party of Monsilva

Green Party of Monsilva 山国绿党 (Shānguó Lǜdǎng)
Leader	Yuen Lim
Founded	February 1991 (1991-02)
Headquarters	Wodai, Wuzhong
Membership (2022)	45,200
Ideology	Green politics Progressivism
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	Democratic Coalition
Colours	Green
Legislative Assembly	21 / 510
Senate	0 / 85
State Parliament members	53 / 1,260

The Green Party of Monsilva (Monsilvan: 山国绿党; pinyin: Shānguó Lǜdǎng), is a green, left-wing political party in the Monsilvan Republic. As of the 2023 federal election, the Green Party has 21 seats in the Legislative Assembly, and 53 seats in total across all state parliaments as of 2024. Since 2020 it has been a member of the Democratic Coalition lead by the FDP alongside the Social Democratic Party.

The party's ideology combines environmentalism with left-wing economic policies, including well-funded and locally controlled public services. It advocates a steady-state economy with the regulation of capitalism, and supports proportional representation. It takes a progressive approach to social policies such as civil liberties, animal rights, LGBT rights, and drug policy reform. The party also believes strongly in non-violence, universal basic income, a living wage, and democratic participation.

The party was formed in February 1991, as a merger of many smaller political factions that were advocating for environmentalism, and agreed to create a political party that would focus on those aspects. The party gained its first member in the parliament in the 1996 federal election. It has retained this seat since then, and gained another seat in Huachang in the 2004 federal election.

History

The Green Party of Monsilva was founded in February 1991 by Tsai Fan, who also served as the party's leader from 1991 to 2007 and the only green member of the Legislative Assembly from 1996 to 2004, when the party gained a second seat in Huachang. The party formed out of a merger of multiple different environmentalist factions scattered across multiple Monsilvan political parties such as the Reformed National Party, the Freedom and Democracy Party and the Liberal Party of Monsilva. In the first 4 years of the party, there was lots of disagreements and internal political disagreements, which is likely why the party failed to gain any seats during this period. The main issues were between right-wing environmentalists who wished to follow more conservative social views, and wanted to encourage eco-capitalism, while left-wing environmentalists wanted to encourage common-ownership and a socialist economy to encourage eco-socialism. As well as this, there were many more liberal environmentalists who wanted neither of those things, and either wished for a status-quo on the economic structure of Monsilva, or wanted to encourage green liberalism instead.

In 1995, many members of the party left and either became independent politicans or joined a different political party. Some even founded an unsuccessful competitor green party known as the Eco-capitalist Party of Monsilva, which was dissolved in 1996. The remaining members of the party were those in the more liberal faction, and decided to focus on green politics and progressivism while discouraging 'rampant' capitalism, but not outright abolishing it. This has remained the foundational policy of the party since then.

In the 1996 election, when the party won their first seat in Parliament, there were many small celebrations among green party members across the country. However, the party did host a much larger celebration inside and outside of the Green Party Headquarters in Wodai, Wuzhong. The celebration involved many green streamers and balloons being thrown out of the HQ and onto the street. Initially this caused a minor outrage, as people assumed the party had used non-recyclable decorations and had littered. However, the party, via a news interview, showed a video of the decorations being cleaned up from the street and identifying that all of the decorations were in fact recyclable.

The party gained its second seat in the Legislative Assembly in 2004. The party gained a large quantity of seats in the 2023 federal election, likely due to the increase in total seats in the Legislative Assembly.

Policy

The Green Party of Monsilva generally retains characteristics of the libertarian-left, but has been known to also lean more left and show signs of socialist ideologies. Among many things, common sections within the party's manifestoes over the past 10 years have included:

• Decreasing the voting age from 18 to 16.
• Addressing social issues such as housing, education and discrimination.
• Creating a universal federal healthcare system, and abolishing individual state public healthcare systems.
• Increasing corporation tax and supporting smaller businesses.
• Penalties for companies that produce excessive emissions.
• Encouraging the transition from fossil fuel energy to green energy such as nuclear.

Being a green party, it's main focuses are on the environment, however the party has often made it clear that they're goals are not limited by environmental issues, and are perfectly capable of meeting their other promises that aren't necessarily to do with green politics. In terms of foreign policy, the party advocates for "Welfare not Warfare" and is opposed to both Monsilva and international involvement in wars, such as during the OU military intervention in Ajakanistan which lasted until early 2023.

See also

• List of political parties in Monsilva
• Politics of Monsilva