Green Liberal Party of Switzerland

Green Liberal Party of Switzerland
AbbreviationGLP
PVL
PresidentJürg Grossen
Founded19 July 2007 (2007-07-19)
Split fromGreen Party of Switzerland
HeadquartersMonbijoustrasse 30, 3011 Bern
Membership (2019)5,000
IdeologyGreen liberalism
Political positionCentre
European affiliationAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party
Colours  Light green
  Light blue
Council of States
1 / 46
National Council
10 / 200
Cantonal executives
2 / 154
Cantonal legislatures
154 / 2,544
Website
grunliberale.ch (German)
vertliberaux.ch (French)
verdiliberali.ch (Italian)

The Green Liberal Party of Switzerland (German: Grünliberale Partei der Schweiz, GLP; Romansh: Partida verda-liberala, PVL; French: Parti vert'libéral, PVL; Italian: Partito verde liberale, PVL), is a green-liberal political party in Switzerland. Founded in 2007, the party holds eleven seats in the Federal Assembly as of the October 2023 election.

The party was formed on 19 July 2007 by four cantonal branches of the Green Party. Contesting the election in October 2007 in St. Gallen and Zurich, the party won three seats in the National Council. A month later, the party won a seat in the Council of States, with Verena Diener representing Zurich. The party has since expanded across Switzerland, and holds seats in thirteen cantonal legislatures in German-speaking Switzerland and the Romandy. The party reached 5.4% at the 2011 federal election, increasing the number of Members of the National Council from three to 12, suffered a setback in 2015 retreating to seven seats with 4.6% of the national vote, only to recover in 2019 by winning 16 seats with 7.8% of the vote.

The GLP are a party of the political centre in contrast to the centre-left to left-wing Green Party of Switzerland. They GLP seek to combine liberalism on civil liberties and moderate economic liberalism with environmental sustainability. Political scientist Andreas Ladner has described their policy as "as green as the Greens", but "significantly less left-wing" than them.:514 The party has an autonomous parliamentary group in the Federal Assembly of Switzerland since the 2011 federal election.