The developments in 1997
The indexEditor: last update 30 March 1997; index
January 5-7 Third Party Conference in Washington DC. There was much support for the candidature of Ralph Nader.
At 27 January France held at Fangataufa its sixth nuclear test since 5 September last year. Two days later president Chirac announced that it was the last one and that France supports from now on a ban on nuclear tests.
The Fourth Council of the Federation took place in Turin on February 9-11. Ralph Monö has been elected as secretary-general and the statutes has been changed.
On March 2 there were parliamentary elections in Australia. Green senator Christabel Chamarette lost her seat, but Green speaker Bob Brown entered the Senate.
On March 3 there were parliamentary elections in Spain. The Greens were split in at least four groups and made a bad performance. They received together 86227 votes (0,37%).
March 23: presidential elections in Taiwan. The Green Party of Taiwan won a seat in the national parliament.
On March 24 there were elections in the German states Rheinland-Pfalz, Schleswig-Holstein and Baden-Württemberg. The Greens improved their result in all three states.
March 26: primary elections in California for the president of the USA. Green candidate Ralph Nader received only 0,44% of the votes.
April 14th: Green Islands meeting (Britain, Ireland, Jersey) in Glasgow.
At April 21 parliamentary elections took place in Italy. The Greens got 2,5% (1994 2,7%), but their number of seats increased.
May 5: The people of Brandenburg rejected the proposed fusion with Berlin.
May 18: Italian coalition sworn in. Edo Ronchi minister of environment for the Greens.
May 26: irregularities in parliamentary elections in Albania.
May 29: parliamentary elections in Cyprus.
June 21-23 the first Congress of the Federation was held in Vienna. The subject was the intergovernmental conference of the European Union.
June 16: first round presidential elections in Russia. Jeltsin (center) 34%, Zjoeganov (communist) 31%, Lebed (nationalist) 16%.
July 3rd: second round presidential elections in Russia. Jeltsin (55%) defeated Zjoeganov (40%).
The Green Party of Canada conference was held in the West Kootenays of British Columbia.
August 15th-19th the National Convention of the Greens in the USA took place at the University of California in Los Angelos and nominated Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke for president and vice-president.
October 12: parliamentary elections in New Zealand. Greens got 13/120 seats in an alliance.
October 13: Greens in Austria kept one seat in the European Parliament.
October 20: Greens in Finland kept one seat in European Parliament.
October 26: No seat for Alternattiva Demokratika in parliamentary elections in Malta.
November 5: Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke got 0,6% in the presidential elections in the USA.
November 25 and 26: meeting of the Green Parties of Canada, USA and Mexico (CanAMex).
December: Vera Langsfeld left the German parliamentary fraction for the Christen-Democrats. Noël Mamère joined the Green Group in the European parliament. Russian authorities released environmental activist Aleksandr Nikitin.
