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The Estonian Green Party

Estonia EGM was one of the first independent political popular movement in Estonia under Soviet rule.  The party Estonian Greens (EG) was formally registered in March 1992 (precessor EGM was registered as party on 20.09.1989) after merger of EGM political wing and EGP. It had approximately 250 members and 3 regional branches. In the 1992 general elections, the Greens were only able to scrape 2.6% of the vote and one deputy to the 101strong Riigikogu (Parliament).  Estonian Greens Today After joining the EU (European Union) on May 2004 along the elections to the EU Parliament, EG in collaboration with variety of environmental groups was supporting individual green candidate to the EP (Europarliament) Mr. Marek Strandberg who was able to gather 5340 (2,3% of total) votes. On basis of that success of green candidate, on May 2005 EG started membership recruitment campaign and