ABSTRACT
The Luxembourg green party, Dei Greng Alternativ, was founded in June 1983 to provide the various protest movements an electoral option at the 1984 national and European elections. Luxembourg has a proportional representation system with different electoral constituencies in which the parties put up lists of candidates. The Greng Alternativ is as much a protest against environmental damage and industrial policies in Luxembourg, as it is a protest against the corporatist decision-marking process. The Greng Alternativ is a party which seems to have not only copied much from the Green party in Germany, but has also learned from its counterpart's mistakes. The mam policy plank of Dei Greng Alternativ is or course environmental protection. Much of Greng Alternativ's election manifesto deals with questions of democracy and liberal freedom, including women's rights, local democracy, the rights of foreign workers to vote and animal rights.
