Ecolo


Ecolo, officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales, is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics. The party is active in Wallonia, the Brussels-Capital Region, and the German-speaking Community of Belgium.
Ecolo's Flemish equivalent is Groen; the two parties maintain close relations with each other.

Name

Ecolo is officially a backronym for Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales "Confederated Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles", but is really just short for écologistes, French for environmentalists.

History

Ecolo was part of the 1999 Verhofstadt I Government, but withdrew from the coalition before the 2003 general election, which saw it lose nearly two thirds of its 14 federal parliamentary seats in the face of a resurgent Socialist Party. The party made quite a comeback, however, in the 2007 general election, though failing to match the peak popularity it had enjoyed in 1999. In the general election of 10 June 2007, the party won eight out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and two out of the 40 directly elected seats in the Senate.
In the 2010 elections the party again won eight seats in the Chamber of Representatives and two in the Senate.

Electoral results

Federal Parliament (Chamber of Representatives) and Senate

Regional parliaments

Brussels Parliament

German-speaking Community Parliament

Walloon Parliament

European Parliament

French-speaking electoral college
Election year# of
overall votes		% of
overall vote		% of electoral
college vote		# of
overall seats won		# of electoral
college seats won		+/–
1979107,8335.1
1984220,6639.9 1
1989371,05316.6 1
1994290,85913.0 1
1999525,3168.422.7 2
2004239,6873.79.8 2
2009562,0818.622.9 1
2014285,1964.311.7 1
2019485,6557.219.9 1

German-speaking electoral college
Election year# of
overall votes		% of
overall vote		% of electoral
college vote		# of
overall seats won		# of electoral
college seats won		+/–
19945,71414.9
19996,2760.0917.0 0
20043,8800.0610.5 0
20096,0250.0915.6 0
20146,4290.1016.7 0
20196,6750.1016.4 0

Elected politicians

Current

European Parliament
Chamber of Representatives
  1. Ronny Balcaen
  2. Juliette Boulet
  3. Olivier Deleuze
  4. Zoé Genot
  5. Muriel Gerkens
  6. George Gilkinet
  7. Eric Jadot
  8. Thérèse Snoy et d'Oppuers
Brussels-Capital Region Parlement
  1. Aziz Albishari
  2. Dominique Braeckman
  3. Jean-Claude Defosse
  4. Céline Delforge
  5. Anne Dirix
  6. Anne Herscovici
  7. Zakia Khattabi
  8. Vincent Lurquin
  9. Alain Maron
  10. Jacques Morel
  11. Ahmed Mouhssin
  12. Marie Nagy
  13. Yaron Pesztat
  14. Arnaud Pinxteren
  15. Barbara Trachte
  16. Vincent Vanhalewyn

    Past

Chamber of Representatives
  1. Philippe Dallons
  2. Olivier Deleuze
  3. Thierry Detienne
  4. Mylène Nys
  5. Martine Schüttringer
  6. Jean-Pierre Viseur
  1. Marie-Thérèse Coenen
  2. Martine Dardenne
  3. Vincent Decroly
  4. Olivier Deleuze → Zoé Genot
  5. Thierry Detienne → Muriel Gerkens
  6. Claudine Drion
  7. Michèle Gilkinet
  8. Mirella Minne
  9. Géraldine Pelzer-Salandra
  10. Paul Timmermans → Bernard Baille
  11. Jean-Pierre Viseur → Gérard Gobert
  1. Zoé Genot
  2. Muriel Gerkens
  3. Gérard Gobert
  4. Marie Nagy
  1. Juliette Boulet
  2. Zoé Genot
  3. Muriel Gerkens
  4. Georges Gilkinet
  5. Philippe Henry
  6. Fouad Lahssaini
  7. Jean-Marc Nollet
  8. Thérèse Snoy et d'Oppuers
Brussels-Capital Region Parlement
  1. Dominique Braeckman
  2. Alain Daems
  3. Céline Delforge
  4. Christos Doulkeridis
  5. Josy Dubié
  6. Paul Galand
  7. Yaron Pesztat

    Important figures

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