This state of affairs is what enabled the Green Movement - an environmental political party with no direct interest in Galant's homestead on Moshav Amikam - to petition the Supreme Court demanding that his appointment be cancelled due to his apparent misappropriation of state land.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Yoav Galant's depressing defeat

Evidently he thinks he can bring down the Gillard government and its Green party allies with unceasing political pressure.

FORBES: Aussie politics: Much like US

Since her surprising success in 2010 as the Brazilian Green Party's presidential candidate, Marina Silva has watched her political influence grow, even though she left the party a year later.

BBC: Brazil's Marina Silva launches 'sustainability party'

In another new development, Laframboise reports that IPCC lead author Andrew Weaver has dropped all pretense of political and scientific objectivity and is now running for political office in Canada representing the Green Party ().

FORBES: About Global Warming, United Nations Doubles Down On Ignorance

Joschka Fischer, the Green Party's foreign minister, lacks political judgment because he once proposed the wrong man for a job.

ECONOMIST: Oskar Lafontaine

Colbert Busch the sister of political satirist Stephen Colbert Sanford and Green Party candidate Eugene Platt are on the ballot May 7 in a special election to fill the vacant congressional seat vacated when Tim Scott was appointed to the U.S. Senate.

NPR: With 1 Week To Go, Sanford Subject Of Attacks

Outspoken opposition leaders, including Chokri Belaid, had been accusing the party of giving a "green light" to political assassinations.

BBC: Clouds gather over bellwether Tunisia

Green Party leader Steven Agnew said he felt the grounds for the bill were "political" and he would not be supporting it.

BBC: Civil Service (Special Advisers) Bill: Second stage

The loss of votes to the Greens may encourage Democrats to extend the boundary of their party a little further to the left, which might put more Green issues into the centre of the political stage.

ECONOMIST: The Spoiler