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On March 6, 1983, “the first ever Green MPs entered the Bundestag," recalls the daily. At the time, they had obtained 5.6 per cent of the vote and 28 seats.
"Their attitude and agenda were dominated by environmentalism, pacifism and opposition politics. However, once they joined the ruling coalition, they accepted to go to war and endorsed Hartz IV,” the highly controversial reform of the unemployment benefit system introduced by the Gerhard Schröder government. Frankfurter Rundschau concludes: “The Bundestag turned the Greens into a normal party".
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