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In democratic politics, a
Red-Green alliance is an alliance of socialist (or social democratic) and decentralist-ecologist (or, to chose a shorter
word, green) parties. The alliance is often based on a shared suspicion
of corporate capitalist institutions which the left believes to promote economic and social inequality and the ecologists believe
to be exploitative of the environment.
In "First Past the Post"
democracies, it is usually an agreement to retain separate means of defining policy, but commit to a common primary process which
is "Red Green colorblind" and thus gives candidates from any party, committed to "Red" or "Green" political theory, an equal
chance to be s/elected by progressives. In proportional representation or approval/preference voting democracies, this primary process is
replaced by the official electoral process, and the elected candidates from "Red" and "Green" backgrounds agree to co-operate in
the forming or criticizing of governments.
Countries in which red-green alliances have taken place include Germany, Belgium, France, The Netherlands, and Finland, where government coalitions were formed between
socialist or social
democratic parties and green parties, and Portugal, where they ran a joint ticket with the Communists.
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