View source for Alliance '90/The Greens

'''Alliance '90/The Greens''' is a [[Green politics|green]] political party in [[Germany]], formed from the merger of the German Green Party (founded in [[West Germany]] in 1980) and Alliance 90 (founded during the Revolution of 1989–1990 in [[German Democratic Republic|East Germany]]) in 1993. Its leaders are Simone Peter and Cem Özdemir. In the 2013 federal elections, the party won 8.4% of the votes and 63 out of 630 seats in the [[Bundestag]], making them the fourth biggest group and the smallest party with representation in the national parliament.

Until 1987, the Greens comprised a faction involved in [[pedophile activism]], the ''SchwuP'' short for ''Arbeitsgemeinschaft "Schwule, Päderasten und Transsexuelle"'' (approx. ''working group "Gays, Pederasts and Transsexuals"''). This faction campaigned for repealing  § 176 of the German penal code, dealing with [[child sexual abuse]]. This group was controversial within the party itself, and was seen as partly responsible for the poor election result of 1985.<ref>[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13513384.html Torso von SchwuP] [[Der Spiegel]] 13/1985.</ref> This controversy re-surfaced in 2013 in the context of the pedophilia activism of [[Daniel Cohn-Bendit]], and chairwoman Claudia Roth stated she welcomed an independent scientific investigation on the extent of influence pedophile activists had on the party in the mid 1980s.<ref>[http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/gruene-roth-will-paedophilie-aufarbeitung-unterstuetzen-12168499.html Roth will Pädophilie-Aufarbeitung unterstützen], [[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]] 1 May 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/past-pedophile-links-haunt-german-green-party-a-899544.html |title=Shadows from the Past: Pedophile Links Haunt Green Party |author=Jan Fleischhauer, Ann-Katrin Müller and René Pfister |year=2013 |publisher=Spiegel}}</ref> In November 2014 the political scientist Franz Walter presented the final report about his research on pedophilia ideology inside the antecedent greens on an press conference.<ref>http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/paedophilie-gruene-studie-zu-eigener-haltung-13261752.html</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Germany]]
[[Category:Political parties]]