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years before. The strategy was open to criticism for raising hopes unrealistically and not then delivering the necessary changes needed to drive the party forward. However, the Green 2000 group itself felt that the 'decentralists' managed to sap their energies and prevent direction being formed. It also strengthened those in the party who shared Green 2000's electoral bias but thought they were going about in the wrong way.
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The aim that the Green party could enter government by 2005 was optimistic to some, but it reflected an ‘electoral’ bias – the real division in the Green Party. Opponents at the time felt that direct action, grassroots networking and other tactics were more likely to provide political benefit
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September 1992, leaving 'decentralists' and a leftist group called
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