Rainbow Greens was a green

Green politics

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 Italian political party.

It was founded in 1989 by splinters of Proletarian Democracy

Proletarian Democracy

Proletarian Democracy was a political party in Italy.-1970s:DP was founded in 1975 as a joint electoral front of the Proletarian Unity Party , Workers Vanguard and the Workers Movement for Socialism...

 (Mario Capanna

Mario Capanna

Mario Capanna is an Italian politician and writer.-Biography:Born in Città di Castello, he studied Philosophy at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, and was the leader of the Italian students' movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s...

, Virginio Bettini, Gianni Tamino, Edo Ronchi and Paolo Gentiloni

Paolo Gentiloni

Paolo Gentiloni is an Italian politician, member of the Daisy—Democracy is Freedom party and currently the Italian Minister of Communications.-Biography:He is a professional journalist and has a degree in political sciences....

) and some leading Radicals (Adelaide Aglietta

Adelaide Aglietta

Born Maria Adelaide Aglietta Turin 4 June 1940 - 20 May 2000 . She was an Italian politician, deputy for Radical party since 1979 to 1985 and 1987 to 1989...

, Adele Faccio

Adele Faccio

Adele Faccio was an Italian politician and deputy of the Radical Party .-Abortion activism:...

, Francesco Rutelli, Franco Corleone and Marco Boato).

It took part in the 1989 European Parliament

European Parliament

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 elections, under the denomination 'Rainbow Greens for Europe' (Verdi Arcobaleno per l'Europa).

In December 1990 it merged with the Green Lists

Green Lists

The Green Lists was an green Italian political party.It was founded in 1986 and merged in 1991 with the Rainbow Greens to form the Federation of the Greens....

 (Gianni Mattioli, Lino De Benetti, Gianfranco Amendola, Alexander Langer

Alexander Langer

Alexander Langer was a journalist, peace activist, politician, translator, and teacher.Born on February 22, 1946 in Sterzing, South Tyrol, a province of Italy inhabited by a German-speaking population, he became involved early on in local political issues, which at the time centered on the...

, Enrico Falqui, Sauro Turroni and Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio

Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio

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) into the Federation of the Greens

Federation of the Greens

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.