Ecolo

Ecolo
Ecolo
Leader	Rajae Maouane and Jean-Marc Nollet
Founded	1980
Headquarters	Espace Kegeljan; Av. de Marlagne 52, Namur
Think tank	Centre d'études Jacky Morael
Ideology	Green politics
Political position	Centre-left
Regional affiliation	SGD/SVD
European affiliation	European Green Party
International affiliation	Global Greens
European Parliament group	The Greens–European Free Alliance
Flemish counterpart	Groen
Colours	Green
Chamber of Representatives; (French-speaking seats)	13 / 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)	2 / 8
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Ecolo, officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales (English: Confederate Ecologists for the Organisation of Original Struggles) is a French-speaking political party in Belgium based on green politics. The party is active in Wallonia, the Brussels-Capital Region, and the German-speaking Community of Belgium.

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.

Electoral results

Chamber of Representatives

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/-	Government
1977	3,834	0.1	0 / 212	0	Extra-parliamentary
1978	21,224	0.4	0 / 212	0	Extra-parliamentary
1981	132,312	2.2	2 / 212	2	Opposition
1985	152,483	2.5	5 / 212	3	Opposition
1987	157,988	2.6	3 / 212	2	Opposition
1991	312,624	5.1	10 / 212	7	Opposition
1995	243,362	4.0	6 / 150	4	Opposition
1999	457,281	7.4	11 / 150	5	Coalition
2003	201,118	3.1	4 / 150	7	Opposition
2007	340,378	5.1	8 / 150	4	Opposition
2010	313,047	4.8	8 / 150	0	Opposition
2014	222,524	3.3	6 / 150	2	Opposition
2019	416,452	6.1	13 / 150	7	External support (2020)
2019	416,452	6.1	13 / 150	7	Coalition (2020-)

Senate

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

Regional

Brussels Parliament

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

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	1	Opposition
1999	4,694	12.7 (#5)	3 / 25	0	Coalition
2004	2,972	8.2 (#5)	2 / 25	1	Opposition
2009	4,310	11.5 (#5)	3 / 25	1	Opposition
2014	3,591	9.5 (#6)	2 / 25	1	Opposition
2019	4,902	12.5 (#5)	3 / 25	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	6	Coalition
2004	167,916	8.5 (#4)	3 / 75	11	Opposition
2009	372,067	18.5 (#3)	14 / 75	11	Coalition
2014	141,813	8.6 (#4)	4 / 75	10	Opposition
2019	294,631	14.5 (#3)	12 / 75	8	Coalition

European Parliament

Election	Votes		%			Seats	+/-
Election	F.E.C.	G.E.C.	F.E.C.	G.E.C.	Overall	Seats	+/-
1979	107,833		5.1 (#5)			0 / 24
1984	220,663		9.9 (#4)			1 / 24	1
1989	371,053		16.6 (#4)			2 / 24	1
1994	290,859	5,714	13.0 (#4)	14.9 (#4)		1 / 25	1
1999	525,316	6,276	22.7 (#3)	17.0 (#3)	8.4	3 / 25	2
2004	239,687	3,880	9.8 (#4)	10.5 (#4)	3.7	1 / 24	2
2009	562,081	6,025	22.9 (#3)	15.6 (#3)	8.6	2 / 22	1
2014	285,196	6,429	11.7 (#3)	16.7 (#2)	4.3	1 / 21	1
2019	485,655	6,675	19.9 (#2)	16.4 (#2)	7.2	2 / 21	1

Elected politicians

Current

European Parliament

Chamber of Representatives

2010 – 2014:

Ronny Balcaen
Juliette Boulet
Olivier Deleuze (resigned in 2012; replaced by Lahssaini Fouad)
Zoé Genot
Muriel Gerkens
George Gilkinet
Eric Jadot
Thérèse Snoy et d'Oppuers

Brussels-Capital Region Parlement

2009 – 2014:

Aziz Albishari
Dominique Braeckman
Jean-Claude Defosse
Céline Delforge
Anne Dirix
Anne Herscovici
Zakia Khattabi
Vincent Lurquin
Alain Maron
Jacques Morel
Ahmed Mouhssin
Marie Nagy
Yaron Pesztat
Arnaud Pinxteren
Barbara Trachte
Vincent Vanhalewyn

Past