• Camera dei Deputati, Via Uffici del Vicario 9/a, I-00186 Rome
  Ph: 39 06 676 098 37
  Fax: 39 06 676 021 40
  gr_ms_verdi@camera.it

• GRUPPO DEI VERDI AL SENATO
  Senato della Repubblica, Palazzo Madama I-00100 Rome
  Ph: 39 06 67063342
  Fax: 39 06 68808856
  intver01@senato.it

Members of the national parliament

Monica FRASSONI, MEP
EP-ASP 08 G 206, rue Wiertz, B-1047 Brussels
Ph: 32 2 284 5932
Fax: 32 2 284 9932
monica.frassoni@europarl.europa.eu
www.greens-efa.org/frassoni

Sepp KUSSTATSCHER, MEP
EP-ASP 08 G 108, rue Wiertz,B-1047 Brussels
Ph: 32 2 284 5143
Fax: 32 2 284 9143
sepp.kusstatscher@europarl.europa.eu 
www.greens-efa.org/kusstatscher

Various Green groups have contested local elections in Italy since the early 1980s. The first Greens entered the Italian Parliament and Senate in 1987, when the non-party list of the ecological movement-Lista Verdi-got 13 MPs and two senators.

In 1992, the Greens got 16 MPs and two Senators, but due to widespread corruption scandals of the ruling Christian Democrat Party, the Parliament and Senate were soon dissolved. The Greens lost ground in the March 1994 general election, along with the left-wing Progressive Pact, which six months earlier had been so successful in getting the Green MP Francesco Rutelli elected Mayor of Rome. The Greens got 11 seats in the 630-member Parliament and six in the 315-member Senate.

Lista Verdi contested the European elections for the first time in 1989. The maverick Italian "Partito radicale" contested on three lists, one of which was made together with other well-known environmentalists and was confusingly called "Verdi Arcobaleno" (The Rainbow Greens). Lista Verdi and Arcobaleno got 3 and 2 MEPs respectively, all of whom joined the Green Group in the European Parliament as the two parties merged to become "Federazione dei Verdi" in 1990.

Though the Federazione dei Verdi adopted a more traditional party structure in 1992, it stood as a confederation of regional groups until 1996 when it became a real party. The former EC Commissioner and Italian Minister of Environment, Mr. Carlo Ripa di Meana, joined the Greens and became the spokesperson of Federazione dei Verdi in 1993. In 1995 he was again elected spokesperson of the Party until 1996; when Luigi Manconi, a well-known sociologist member of the Senate, became the new spokesperson of the Italian Greens. His mandate expired in spring 1998.

Due to developments in the Italian parliament in autumn 1998, the Greens had 2 Ministers in the Italian government: Edo Ronchi as Environment Minister and Laura Balbo as Minister for Equal Opportunities, followed by Ministers Gianni Francesco Mattioli and Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio.

Due to the bad results in the European elections of June 1999, the Italian Greens decided to rebuild the party, starting from their organisation and internal rules and trying to get new and more adequate instruments of political analysis and action. At the end of July the 1999 leadership of the party was entrusted to Grazia Francescato, a well known leader of WWF-Italy; Grazia was unanimously confirmed President of the party at the Chianciano Congress in January 2000.

For the general elections of spring 2001, Greens made a common list with the Socialist Party called "Il Girasole", within the centre-left alliance of the "Olive Tree", led by the former Green leader Francesco Rutelli, who had join the centre list "La Margherita". All left wing Parties lost ground in the political landslide which brought Berlusconi's right wing parts to government. The Greens elected 8 members in the lower chamber and 9 senators in the National Parliament.

The following Party Congress, also held in Chianciano, elected MP former Minister Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio as the new President of the Party, in December 2001.

At the June 2004 EP elections, the Italian Greens elected 2 MEPs.

National Government:

Parties Represented in National Parliament (183 seats):

Next National Elections:

Latest Green Party Election Results:

• National Election Year: 2008
  MPs:
  Total No. National Votes:
  % Gained:
• European Elections: 2004
  MEPs: 2
  Total No. European Votes:802.502
  % Gained: 2,5