Federation of Green Lists

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| name = Federation of Green Lists

|native_name = Federazione delle Liste Verdi

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|leader = Gianni Francesco Mattioli

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|foundation = 16 November 1986

|dissolution = 9 December 1990

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|merged = Federation of the Greens

|headquarters = Via Salandra 6, Rome

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|ideology = Green politics

|position = Left-wing

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|europarl = Green Group

|country = Italy

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The Federation of Green Lists ({{langx|it|Federazione delle Liste Verdi}}){{cite book|author1=Miranda Schreurs|author2=Elim Papadakis|title=The A to Z of the Green Movement|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nnfmOi0fAwAC&pg=PA132|year=2007|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-7041-3|page=132}} or Green List (Lista Verde, LV) was a green political party in Italy. Its members included Gianni Francesco Mattioli, Lino De Benetti, Gianfranco Amendola, Alexander Langer, Enrico Falqui, Sauro Turroni and Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio. The Green Lists used the Smiling Sun symbol of the anti-nuclear movement, which was inherited by its successor party, the Federation of the Greens.

History

It was founded on 16 November 1986. The party was formed as a national organisation of Green Lists which had first contested regional elections in 1985, initially being joined by seventy local lists.{{cite book|author=Roberto Biorcio|chapter=Italy|editor1=Ferdinand Muller-Rommel|editor2=Thomas Poguntke|title=Green Parties in National Governments|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ndz9AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA149|year=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-28826-6|page=149|edition=2nd }} In the 1987 general election, the Green Lists received 2.5% for the Chamber, returning thirteen deputies as well as two senators in the Senate.

The party took part in the 1989 European Parliamentary elections, receiving 3.8% of the vote, electing 3 MEPs.{{cite book|author=John Ely|chapter=Green Politics in Europe and the United States|editor1=Margit Mayer|editor2=John Ely|title=The German Greens: Paradox Between Movement and Party|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Msswvx3VslIC&pg=PA195|year=1998|publisher=Temple University Press|isbn=978-1-56639-516-8|page=195}} A rival ecologist list, the Rainbow Greens, received 2.4% in the same election.{{cite book|editor=Gino Moliterno|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvGGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA881|year=2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-75876-0|page=881}}

In December 1990 the party merged with the Rainbow Greens to form the Federation of the Greens.{{cite book|author=Roberto Biorcio|chapter=Green Parties in Southern Europe|editor=Emilie van Haute|title=Green Parties in Europe|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LNgRDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA182|year=2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-12454-2|page=182}}