Posted by Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
After surpassing expectations in recent congressional elections, Colombia’s Green Party has a high-profile candidate for president in Antanas Mockus, a popular former mayor of Colombian capital Bogotá. Recent polls placed Mockus third in a crowded field of candidates – Mockus polled at 9%, while the second-place candidate was at 17%. Since then, independent candidate Sergio Fajardo – who earned 4% in the same poll – has joined Mockus as his vice-presidential running mate. Both are popular former mayors known for their commitment to ending corruption. Mockus and Fajardo are the most popular candidates on facebook and twitter, which could be taken as a sign of their popularity with young Colombians.
If the Green Party’s Mockus-Fajardo ticket places in the top two vote-getters in Colombia’s May presidential election, the Greens could advance to a head-to-head runoff, likely against the right-wing ally of President Uribe who currently leads in the polls.
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1 Green Party Conservative // Apr 9, 2010 at 6:45 pm
The story, while appreciated is old news.
The Green Party candidate for President is much father along now.
He has picked another former mayor for Vice President on the Green Party ticket.
The Green Party candidate has now jumped to second place in the polling…
Those polls are from yesterday Thursday April 8, 2010..
The Green Party presidential candidate trails the leading candidate by only 8 percentage points in a crowed field.
That story was linked here at IPR last night.
2 Green Party Conservative // Apr 9, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Associated Press reports the same tonight..
Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus has been vying for second place in recent public opinion polls ahead of May 30 presidential election. A second-round runoff is likely between the top two candidates.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h2Jpk1C735-GMgmHsH1VX5hix-DwD9EVOQBO0
3 Green Party Conservative // Apr 9, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Green Party is also climbing in the polls in Hungry..
Green Party expects to enter legistlature after next election…
Andras Schiffer said the new party’s election result will be proof that politics can be tackled out of “a selfless patriotism and a feeling of responsibility” on behalf of Hungarian citizens. This will ride against the orthodoxy of the past 20 years that the direction of the country is determined by a political elite, he said.
http://www.politics.hu/20100409/lmp-says-party-to-enter-parliament-deliver-green-revolution
4 Green Party Conservative // Apr 9, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Support for Green Party also grows in U.K.
Green Party showing well in polling
The Greens will unveil their manifesto next week with a pitch to voters highlighting the “yawning gap” on the left they say has been made vacant by New Labour.
Caroline Lucas, the Greens leader, said the party planned to shake off its single-issue image by emphasising policies on social justice and the economy.
The Greens are redoubling their efforts to enter parliament by fielding 316 candidates across the UK – an increase of more than 50% on the 202 members who stood at the last general election.
Lucas, one of the party’s two MEPs, is running hard in Brighton Pavilion, a patch where the Greens have nine councillors and where they came third in 2005.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/09/green-left-labour-gap
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