Ecolo

Ecolo, officially Écologistes Confédérés pour l'organisation de luttes originales"," 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.
Elected politicians.
Current.
European Parliament
Chamber of Representatives
Brussels-Capital Region Parlement
Past.
Chamber of Representatives
Brussels-Capital Region Parlement