Sri Lanka Green Alliance In Taiwan For Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Green Alliance candidate
Sanka Chandima Abayawardena got elected to
The Coordinating Committee of the
Asia Pacific Greens Network during the
APGN congress held in Taipei-Taiwan.
He is the youngest ever in the world
To get elected to a regional green political networks coordinating body.
Initiated in the 1980s, Green Parties were organized almost exclusively in
Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and a handful of countries in the
Americas (Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and the U.S.). Since then, Green Parties
Have spread across the globe, appearing today in approximately 90 Different countries.
This reflects the nature of the Green movement in the Asia-Pacific region
Where the number of Green Parties is growing, but where there are also
Many countries in which there is not yet a formal Green political party.