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{{Infobox political party

| native_name = Les Verts

| name = The Greens

| logo = Logo des verts français.png

| colorcode = {{party color|The Greens (France)}}

| foundation = 20 January 1984

| dissolved = 13 November 2010

| merged = [[Europe Ecology – The Greens]]

| ideology = [[Green politics]]<br/>[[Alter-globalization]]

| european = [[European Green Party]]

| europarl = [[The Greens–European Free Alliance|Greens/EFA]]

| international = [[Global Greens]]

| president = [[Dominique Voynet]]

| colours = Green

| position = [[Centre-left politics|Centre-left]] to [[Left-wing politics|left-wing]]

| headquarters = 247, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin <br /> F-75010 Paris

| website = [http://www.lesverts.fr/ http://www.lesverts.fr/]

| country = France

}}

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'''The Greens''' ({{lang-fr|link=no|Les Verts}}, {{IPA-|fr|le vɛʁ|IPA}}; VEC or LV) was a [[centreLeft-wing politics|left-wing]] to [[Centre-left politics|centre-wingleft]] [[Green politics|green]]-[[Ecology movement|ecologist]]<ref name="AnttiroikoMälkiä2007">{{cite book|author1=Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko|author2=Matti Mälkiä|title=Encyclopedia of Digital Government|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDrTMazYhdkC&pg=PA397|access-date=18 July 2013|year=2007|publisher=Idea Group Inc (IGI)|isbn=978-1-59140-790-4|page=397}}</ref> [[list of political parties in France|political party in France]]. The Greens had been in existence since 1984, but their spiritual roots could be traced as far back as [[René Dumont]]'s [[1974 French presidential election|candidacy for the presidency in 1974]]. On 13 November 2010, The Greens merged with [[Europe Écologie|Europe Ecology]] to become [[Europe Ecology – The Greens]].<ref name="Lansford2014">{{cite book|author=Tom Lansford|title=Political Handbook of the World 2014|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iC_VBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA488|date=20 March 2014|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-1-4833-8626-3|page=488}}</ref>

==History==

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===Participation in government===

Waechter's influence was called into question in 1994 when the Greens decided to break with his policy of non-alignment, instead deciding to adopt a markedly left-wing stance. The move prompted Waechter to leave the Greens. He went on to found the [[Independent Ecological Movement]]. In the following presidential election of 1995, [[Dominique Voynet]] polled a modest 3.8% but, in due to the marginalisation of [[Ecology Generation]], the Greens captured the leadership into the family of the French [[political ecology]].

Component of [[Plural Left]] coalition, the Greens obtained for the first time a parliamentary representation in [[1997 French legislative election|1997]]. [[Dominique Voynet]] was to lead the party into government for the first time, joining [[Lionel Jospin]]'s [[Socialist Party (France)|Socialist Party]] (PS) and the [[French Communist Party|Communist Party]] (PCF). Voynet was rewarded with the cabinet position of Minister for the Environment and Regional Planning, before being replaced by [[Yves Cochet]] in 2001.

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[[Alain Lipietz]] was first selected to represent the Greens in the [[2002 French presidential election|2002 presidential elections]] but his public outings proved awkward and he was soon replaced by [[Noël Mamère]] who had initially lost the [[primary election]]s. Mamère's 5.25% represents the strongest Green challenge for the presidency to date. However, the legislative elections were a major disappointment: with just 4.51% of votes cast nationally, the Greens’ representation fell from six to just three deputies (out of a total of 577) in the [[French National Assembly|National Assembly]].

===TheOpposition Greensand todaymerger===

Following the return to opposition benches in 2002, [[Gilles Lemaire]] assumed the position of national secretary. His tenure is marked by a period of internal strife in the party. Lemaire was in turn replaced by [[Yann Wehrling]], who seemingly united a majority of the membership under a text outlining the future direction that the party hoped to pursue. He was succeeded by [[Cécile Duflot]] in 2006, who was the party's youngest National Secretary at the age of 31. She announced her resignation in May 2012 after being appointed to the new cabinet appointed by President [[François Hollande]].

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===Presidential===

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center

! rowspan=2|Election year▼

! rowspan=2|Candidate▼

! colspan=2|1stFirst round▼

! colspan=2|2ndSecond round▼

!rowspan=2|Result

|-

!Votes

▲! rowspan=2|Election year

!%

▲! rowspan=2|Candidate

!Votes

▲! colspan=2|1st round

!%

▲! colspan=2|2nd round

|-

! # of overall votes

! % of overall vote

! # of overall votes

! % of overall vote

|-

! [[1988 French presidential election|1988]]

| [[Antoine Waechter]]

| 1,149,897

| 3.8%

| <nowiki>-</nowiki>

| colspan=2 bgcolor=lightgrey|

| <nowiki>-</nowiki>

|{{no|Lost}}

|-

! [[1995 French presidential election|1995]]

| [[Dominique Voynet]]

| 1,010,738

| 3.3%

| <nowiki>-</nowiki>

| colspan=2 bgcolor=lightgrey|

| <nowiki>-</nowiki>

|{{no|Lost}}

|-

! [[2002 French presidential election|2002]]

| [[Noël Mamère]]

| 1,495,724

| 5.3%

| <nowiki>-</nowiki>

| colspan=2 bgcolor=lightgrey|

| <nowiki>-</nowiki>

|{{no|Lost}}

|-

! [[2007 French presidential election|2007]]

| [[Dominique Voynet]]

| 576,666

| 1.6%

|<nowiki>-</nowiki>

| colspan=2 bgcolor=lightgrey|

| <nowiki>-</nowiki>

|{{no|Lost}}

|}

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