ABSTRACT
A founder of the main French Green Party, Les Verts, in 1984 and its main leader and speaker for the following ten years, Waechter became known for his uncompromising, earnest views. He represents a radical, fundamentalist approach to green politics, refusing alliances with other political groups. He was the Green candidate in the 1988 presidential elections, and an MEP from 1989 to 1991. His views were defeated within the Green Party in 1994, by an alliance of less ‘fundamentalist’ activists, and he left to create his own movement, the Mouvement Écologiste Indépendant, which has not been successful in attracting support.
