Team K | |
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Leader | Paul Köllensperger |
Founded | 10 July 2018 |
Split from | Five Star Movement |
Ideology |
Regionalism Liberalism Social liberalism |
Political position | Centre [1] [2] to centre-left [3] |
National affiliation | More Europe |
European affiliation | ALDE Party |
Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 630 |
Senate | 0 / 315 |
European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
Provincial Council | 4 / 35 |
Website | |
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Team K (TK), named Team Köllensperger from its establishment in July 2018 to November 2019, is a political party active in South Tyrol, where it seeks to be an inter-ethnic centrist party. [4] Led by Paul Köllensperger, it is politically regionalist, [5] liberal, [6] [7] [8] and social-liberal. [5] [9] [10]
The party, which is close to NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS), a like-minded liberal party, is an observer member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE) and formed a pact with More Europe (+Eu) for the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy. In addition to social-liberal and environmentalist polices, TK advocates a pro-European stance, [11] and is supportive of direct democracy. [5]
The party was established on the 10 July 2018 by Paul Köllensperger, a member of the Landtag of South Tyrol. [12] Köllensperger was elected in the Landtag after the 2013 provincial election within the Five Star Movement (M5S). [13] In July 2018, he left the party accusing its leadership of not being interested in promoting enough South Tyrol's local interests and that it was necessary to establish a new party aimed at representing all the South Tyroleans looking for an inter-ethnic centrist party and aiming at breaking the absolute majority of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP). [14] In the 2018 provincial election the party obtained a successful 15.2% of the vote, arriving second after the SVP. [15]
In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, TK, which affirmed to be taking inspiration from Austria's NEOS party, [11] joined the ALDE party. [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] Consequently, it formed a pact with +Eu, ALDE's member party in Italy, and proposed Renate Holzeisen as its candidate. [21] [22] [11] The list came third with 11.2% of the vote in South Tyrol and Holzeisen was the second most-voted candidate in the province, gaining nearly 23,000 votes; she did not succeed in being elected as the list did not pass the 4% country-level electoral threshold. [23] Holzeisen later left the party and joined and joined Vita, focusing on opposing COVID-19 vaccines. [24]
In the 2023 provincial election the party obtained 11.1% of the vote, while Holzeisen-led Vita won 2.6%.
In the 2024 European Parliament election the party will run within Action, with Köllensperger as its candidate. [25]
Landtag of South Tyrol | |||||
Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Leader |
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2018 | 43,315 (2nd) | 15.2 | 6 / 35
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Paul Köllensperger
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2023 | 31,201 (2nd) | 11.1 | 4 / 35
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Paul Köllensperger
Maria Elisabeth Rieder |
European Parliament | |||||
Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Leader |
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2019 | into More Europe | 11.2 | 0 / 76
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Paul Köllensperger
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