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Ecolo
LeaderMarie Lecocq and Samuel Cogolati
Founded1980 (1980)
HeadquartersEspace Kegeljan
Av. de Marlagne 52, Namur
Think tankCentre d'études Jacky Morael[1]
IdeologyGreen politics[2][3]
Political positionCentre-left
Regional affiliationSocialists, Greens and Democrats[4]
European affiliationEuropean Green Party
European Parliament groupThe Greens–European Free Alliance
International affiliationGlobal Greens
Flemish counterpartGroen
ColoursGreen
Chamber of Representatives
(French-speaking seats)
3 / 61
Senate
(French-speaking seats)
5 / 24
Parliament of Wallonia
12 / 75
Parliament of the French Community
16 / 94
Brussels Parliament
(French-speaking seats)
15 / 72
Parliament of the German-speaking Community
3 / 25
European Parliament
(French-speaking seats)
1 / 8
Website
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Ecolo (French pronunciation: [ekɔlo]), officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales ([ekɔlɔʒist kɔ̃fedeʁe puʁ lɔʁɡanizasjɔ̃ də lyt ɔʁiʒinal], lit. 'Confederate Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles') is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics.[2][3][5] The party is active in Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region.

Ecolo's Flemish equivalent is Groen; the two parties maintain close relations with each other.

Name

Ecolo is officially a backronym for Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales "Confederated Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles", but is really just short for écologistes, French for environmentalists.

History

Ecolo was part of the 1999 Verhofstadt I Government, but withdrew from the coalition before the 2003 general election, which saw it lose nearly two thirds of its 14 federal parliamentary seats in the face of a resurgent Socialist Party. The party made quite a comeback, however, in the 2007 general election, though failing to match the peak popularity it had enjoyed in 1999. In the general election of 10 June 2007, the party won eight out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Representatives and two out of the 40 directly elected seats in the Senate.

In the 2010 elections, the party again won eight seats in the Chamber of Representatives and two in the Senate.[6]

Political views

Ecolo is a political party that promotes sustainable development policies, aimed at preserving the environment and combating climate change, in the interests of current and future generations. The party seeks to create a more democratic and inclusive society by encouraging new political practices and strengthening citizen participation in a model of participatory democracy.[7]

Electoral positioning

During the 2019 election campaign, the RePresent research centre — composed of political scientists from five universities (UAntwerpen, KU Leuven, VUB, UCLouvain and ULB)[8][9] — studied the electoral programmes of Belgium's thirteen main political parties. This study classified the parties on two "left-right" axes, from "-5" (extreme left) to "5" (extreme right): a "classic" socio-economic axis, which refers to state intervention in the economic process and the degree to which the state should ensure social equality, and a socio-cultural axis, which refers to a divide articulated around an identity-based opposition on themes such as immigration, Europe, crime, the environment, emancipation, etc.[9]

Ecolo then presented a programme marked on the left on the socio-economic level (-3.87), and close to the extreme left on the socio-cultural level (-4.37).[9][10]

The RePresent centre repeated the exercise during the 2024 election campaign for the twelve main parties. Ecolo's positioning changed little on the socio-economic axis (-3.81), and it became the most left-wing party on the socio-cultural axis (-4.62).[11]

Election results

Chamber of Representatives

Election Votes % Seats +/- Government
1977[12] 3,834 0.1
0 / 212
 Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary
1978[13] 21,224 0.4
0 / 212
 Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary
1981[14] 132,312 2.2
2 / 212
 Increase 2 Opposition
1985[15] 152,483 2.5
5 / 212
 Increase 3 Opposition
1987[16] 157,988 2.6
3 / 212
 Decrease 2 Opposition
1991[17] 312,624 5.1
10 / 212
 Increase 7 Opposition
1995[18] 243,362 4.0
6 / 150
 Decrease 4 Opposition
1999[19] 457,281 7.4
11 / 150
 Increase 5 Coalition
2003[20] 201,118 3.1
4 / 150
 Decrease 7 Opposition
2007[21] 340,378 5.1
8 / 150
 Increase 4 Opposition
2010[22] 313,047 4.8
8 / 150
 Steady 0 Opposition
2014[23] 222,524 3.3
6 / 150
 Decrease 2 Opposition
2019[24] 416,452 6.1
13 / 150
 Increase 7 External support (2020)
Coalition (2020–2025)
2024 204,438 2.9
3 / 150
 Decrease 10 Opposition

Senate

Election Votes % Seats +/-
1977[25] 7,558 0.1
0 / 106
1978[26] 43,883 0.8
0 / 106
 Steady
1981[27] 153,989 2.6
3 / 106
 Increase 3
1985[28] 163,361 2.7
2 / 106
 Decrease 1
1987[29] 168,491 2.8
2 / 106
 Steady
1991[30] 323,683 5.3
6 / 106
 Increase 4
1995[31] 258,635 4.3
2 / 40
 Decrease 4
1999[32] 458,658 7.4
3 / 40
 Increase 1
2003[33] 208,868 3.2
1 / 40
 Decrease 2
2007 385,466 5.8
2 / 40
 Increase 1
2010 353,111 5.5
2 / 40
 Steady 0

Regional

Brussels Parliament

Election Votes % Seats +/- Government
F.E.C. Overall
1989 44,874 10.2 (#5)
8 / 75
 Opposition
1995 37,308 9.0 (#4)
7 / 75
 Decrease 1 Opposition
1999 77,969 21.3 (#2) 18.3 (#2)
14 / 75
 Increase 7 Opposition
2004 37,908 9.7 (#4) 8.3 (#4)
7 / 89
 Decrease 1 Coalition
2009 82,663 20.2 (#3) 17.9 (#3)
16 / 89
 Increase 9 Coalition
2014 41,368 10.1 (#5) 8.9 (#5)
8 / 89
 Decrease 8 Opposition
2019 74,246 19.1 (#2) 16.2 (#2)
15 / 89
 Increase 7 Coalition
2024 38,386 9.85 (#5) #5
7 / 89
 Decrease 8 [to be determined]

German-speaking Community Parliament

Election Votes % Seats +/- Government
1990 5,897 15.0 (#5)
4 / 25
 Opposition
1995 5,128 13.9 (#4)
3 / 25
 Decrease 1 Opposition
1999 4,694 12.7 (#5)
3 / 25
 Steady 0 Coalition
2004 2,972 8.2 (#5)
2 / 25
 Decrease 1 Opposition
2009 4,310 11.5 (#5)
3 / 25
 Increase 1 Opposition
2014 3,591 9.5 (#6)
2 / 25
 Decrease 1 Opposition
2019 4,902 12.5 (#5)
3 / 25
 Increase 1 Opposition
2024 3,644 9.1 (#6)
2 / 25
 Decrease 1 Opposition

Walloon Parliament

Election Votes % Seats +/- Government
1995 196,988 10.4 (#4)
8 / 75
 Opposition
1999 347,225 18.2 (#3)
14 / 75
 Increase 6 Coalition
2004 167,916 8.5 (#4)
3 / 75
 Decrease 11 Opposition
2009 372,067 18.5 (#3)
14 / 75
 Increase 11 Coalition
2014 141,813 8.6 (#4)
4 / 75
 Decrease 10 Opposition
2019 294,631 14.5 (#3)
12 / 75
 Increase 8 Coalition
2024 144,189 7.0 (#5)
5 / 75
 Decrease 7 Opposition

European Parliament

Election List leader Votes % Seats +/− EP Group
F.E.C. G.E.C. F.E.C. G.E.C. Overall
1979 Paul Lannoye (F.E.C.) 107,833 — 5.14 (#5) — 1.98
0 / 24
 New −
1984 François Roelants du Vivier (F.E.C.) 220,663 — 9.85 (#4) — 3.86
1 / 24
 Increase 1 RBW
1989 Paul Lannoye (F.E.C.) 371,053 — 16.56 (#4) — 6.29
2 / 24
 Increase 1 G
1994 Paul Lannoye (F.E.C.)
Unclear (G.E.C.) 		290,859 5,714 13.02 (#4) 14.90 (#4) 4.97
1 / 25
 Decrease 1
1999 Paul Lannoye (F.E.C.)
Didier Cremer (G.E.C.) 		525,316 6,276 22.70 (#3) 17.01 (#3) 8.59
3 / 25
 Increase 2 Greens/EFA
2004 Pierre Jonckheer (F.E.C.)
Lambert Jaegers (G.E.C.) 		239,687 3,880 9.84 (#4) 10.49 (#4) 3.75
1 / 24
 Decrease 2
2009 Isabelle Durant (F.E.C.)
Claudia Niessen (G.E.C.) 		562,081 6,025 22.88 (#3) 15.58 (#3) 8.64
2 / 22
 Increase 1
2014 Philippe Lamberts (F.E.C.)
Erwin Schöpges (G.E.C.) 		285,196 6,429 11.69 (#3) 16.66 (#2) 4.36
1 / 21
 Decrease 1
2019 Philippe Lamberts (F.E.C.)
Shqiprim Thaqi (G.E.C.) 		485,655 6,675 19.91 (#2) 16.37 (#2) 7.31
2 / 21
 Increase 1
2024 Saskia Bricmont (F.E.C.)
Shqiprim Thaqi (G.E.C.) 		259,745 4,819 10.06 (#5) 11.10 (#6) 3.71
1 / 22
 Decrease 1

Elected politicians

Current

European Parliament

Chamber of Representatives

  • 2010 – 2014:
  1. Ronny Balcaen
  2. Juliette Boulet
  3. Olivier Deleuze (resigned in 2012; replaced by Lahssaini Fouad)
  4. Zoé Genot
  5. Muriel Gerkens
  6. Georges Gilkinet
  7. Eric Jadot
  8. Thérèse Snoy et d'Oppuers

Brussels-Capital Region Parlement

  • 2009 – 2014:
  1. Aziz Albishari
  2. Dominique Braeckman
  3. Jean-Claude Defosse
  4. Céline Delforge
  5. Anne Dirix
  6. Anne Herscovici
  7. Zakia Khattabi
  8. Vincent Lurquin
  9. Alain Maron
  10. Jacques Morel
  11. Ahmed Mouhssin
  12. Marie Nagy
  13. Yaron Pesztat
  14. Arnaud Pinxteren
  15. Barbara Trachte
  16. Vincent Vanhalewyn

Past

European Parliament

  • 1989 - 1994
  1. Brigitte Ernst de la Greate

Chamber of Representatives

  • 1995 – 1999:
  1. Philippe Dallons
  2. Olivier Deleuze
  3. Thierry Detienne
  4. Mylène Nys (20 April 1999) (replaced Vincent Decroly)
  5. Martine Schüttringer
  6. Jean-Pierre Viseur
  • 1999 – 2003:
  1. Marie-Thérèse Coenen
  2. Martine Dardenne
  3. Vincent Decroly
  4. Olivier Deleuze → Zoé Genot (14 July 1999)
  5. Thierry Detienne → Muriel Gerkens (23 July 1999)
  6. Claudine Drion
  7. Michèle Gilkinet
  8. Mirella Minne
  9. Géraldine Pelzer-Salandra
  10. Paul Timmermans → Bernard Baille (1 September 2002)
  11. Jean-Pierre Viseur → Gérard Gobert (10 January 2001)
  • 2003–2007:
  1. Zoé Genot (replaced Olivier Deleuze)
  2. Muriel Gerkens
  3. Gérard Gobert (replaced Jean-Marc Nollet)
  4. Marie Nagy
  • 2007–2010:
  1. Juliette Boulet
  2. Zoé Genot
  3. Muriel Gerkens
  4. Georges Gilkinet
  5. Philippe Henry
  6. Fouad Lahssaini
  7. Jean-Marc Nollet
  8. Thérèse Snoy et d'Oppuers

Brussels-Capital Region Parlement

  • 2004–2009:
  1. Dominique Braeckman
  2. Alain Daems
  3. Céline Delforge
  4. Christos Doulkeridis
  5. Josy Dubié
  6. Paul Galand
  7. Yaron Pesztat

Important figures

See also

References

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