Ecobreves – Green Candidates

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LIMA, Jan 7 2001 (IPS) - – The environmental group Green Alternative will participate in Peru's April 8 general elections with candidates for the presidency and for parliament. The presidential hopeful is Alex Castillo, the party's secretary general, and among the likely parliamentary candidates are Gina Torrealba, former member of the national volleyball team, and several mayors. Castillo reported that his group will have the support of green parties in the United States and in Mexico, and that his political platform gives priority to sustainable development, protection of human rights and of natural resources, administrative decentralization and the exchange of foreign debt for environmental projects.

The Green Alternative already has grassroots groups throughout the country and in 15 districts of Lima, the city where the group was born in 1997.