** ** FILE ** Leaders of the German Greens,from left; former General Gert Bastian, his companion Petra Kelly, Otto Schily, and Marieluise Beck-Oberdorf, carry flowers and potted conifers, as they lead a parade of Green party members and supporters on a walk towards the Bundestag (West German parliament) before entering the building in Bonn, West Germany, in a March 29, 1983 file photo. When Die Gruenen or The Green' first entered parliament a quarter-century ago by gaining 5.6 percent of the votes in elections on March 6, 1983, few imagined that the protest party, with its penchant for unkempt beards, dungarees and sunflowers, would one day a sought-after ally for conservatives. (AP Photo)