In 2004, two leading members of
the Greens in
Zurich,
Verena Diener and
Martin Bäumle, left the party citing its leftist tendencies and organisational concerns, and founded the Green Liberal Party of Zurich. The national party was founded on 19 July 2007 by four
cantonal parties of the same name that had seceded from the Green Party. These branches were in Zurich,
Basel-Landschaft,
Bern, and
St. Gallen. In the
2007 election to the
National Council on 22 October 2007, the party ran in Zurich and St. Gallen. Despite being limited to only two cantons, the party won 1.4% of the popular vote nationwide and three out of 200 seats. In Zurich, they won 7% of the vote and in St. Gallen they won 3.2%. When the Federal Assembly convened, the GLP joined the
Christian Democrats/EPP/glp Group, In 2010 the party got an additional seat in the Council of States with
Markus Stadler from
Uri. At the
2011 federal election, the GLP was one of the big winners, increasing its vote share to 5.4%. It had stood in 11 cantons, getting between 2% and 10.3% of the vote. The GLP was one of the leading political parties for legalising
same-sex marriage in Switzerland, in which it was adopted in
an optional referendum on 26 September 2021. In October 2021, the GLP introduced a new, refreshed logo with the French slogan (creators of the future). Since April 2022, there are cantonal parties in all 26 cantons. == Ideology and platform ==