Greek Ecologists
Greek Ecologists Έλληνες Οικολόγοι | |
|---|---|
| President | Dimosthenis Vergis |
| Founded | 1986 |
| Dissolved | 2023 |
| Ideology | Pacifism Political satire Ecologism Progressivism |
The Greek Ecologists (Greek: Έλληνες Οικολόγοι, romanized: Ellines Oikologoi), previously the Union of Ecologists (Greek: Ένωση Οικολόγων, romanized: Énosi Ikológon), was a Greek "fringe" and "bizarre ecological party".
The party's president was Dimosthenis Vergis, a former auto-worker, trade unionist, journalist, and peace activist. Vergis has been described as a "self-styled ecologist" and "a self-styled, modern-day Dionysus – God of wine, revelry and fertility".
Vergis usually deploys naked female party workers in his campaigns and has posed nude for campaign posters and pamphlets, flirting "with any female journalist that comes within groping distance". He supports the legalisation of cannabis and unrestricted nudism.
The Greek Ecologists and its leader are not accepted as a Green party by the Ecologist Greens, which enjoys international recognition as Greece's green party. The Ecologist Greens have condemned Vergis, stating: "The public can be assured that the political culture of Ecologist Greens and the Green movement, in general, has nothing to do with behaviour that makes a mockery or which, through strange – at least – and disastrous interests (such as abuses, money laundering), has damaged the interest in the environment and the political perspectives of ecology in Greece."