Team Carinthia

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Team Carinthia
Team Kärnten
AbbreviationTK
ChairmanGerhard Köfer
Deputy ChairmanSiegfried Huber
Founded
  • 27 September 2012 (2012-09-27) (Team Stronach Carinthia)
  • 1 October 2016 (2016-10-01) (Team Carinthia)
HeadquartersLidmanskygasse 10, A-9020 Klagenfurt
Ideology
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Political positionCentre-right[citation needed]
National affiliationTeam Stronach (2012–2016)
European affiliationEuropean Alliance for Freedom and Democracy
ColoursFlag of Carinthia:
  •   Yellow
  •   Red
  •   White
National Council
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European Parliament
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Carinthian Landtag
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Website
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Team Carinthia (German: Team Kärnten, TK), formerly Team Stronach Carinthia, is a political party in the Austrian state of Carinthia. It emerged from the Carinthian regional organization of the now defunct Team Stronach. In the media, it is attested to have a populist orientation.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] In the 2018 Carinthian state election, Team Carinthia reached the Carinthian Landtag with 5.80% of the votes.

History[edit]

In the 2013 Carinthian state election, the party achieved 11.18% of the votes cast and entered the Carinthian Landtag with four seats.[8] The Team Stronach Carinthia, together with the Team Stronach Lower Austria, which also received 9.84% of the votes cast in the 2013 Lower Austrian state election,[9] was not just one of the first two regional organizations of the Team Stronach to participate in elections but also one of the two first regional organizations of the party to be elected to an Austrian state parliament.

After Frank Stronach had deposed Gerhard Köfer as Carinthian state party chairman and the entire state party executive on October 2, 2013 and appointed the state parliament member Siegfried Schalli as the new state party chairman,[10] tensions arose within the party.[11] The conflict over Frank Stronach's influence on the national organization, which was fought between Köfer, Schalli and their respective supporters, was finally resolved after several crisis meetings.[12] On October 14, 2013 Andrea Krainer was elected interim state party leader.[13]

At the end of October 2013, Schalli surprisingly left the party and switched to the FPÖ. The Stronach Carinthia team lost its club status in the state parliament and was only an interest group.[14] Martin Rutter was expelled from the party by party chairman Gerhard Köfer at the end of September 2017.[15] When Isabella Theuermann moved to the FPÖ in December 2017, only Hartmut Prasch remained in the state parliament and the list lost its status as an interest group.[16]

In December 2013, Gerhard Klocker was elected as the new interim state party chairman.[17] In April 2014, Klocker finally became state party chairman.[18]

Since October 2016, after the repayment of a loan to Frank Stronach, the party appeared under the name “Free Team Carinthia – List Gerhard Köfer”. For legal reasons, the party continued to use the name Stronach until the end of the legislative period.[19] In November there was an amendment to the statutes, which dissolved the party from the Stronach team. State party chairman of the now independent party was Gerhard Köfer.[20] For the 2018 state election, the party ran as Team Carinthia and achieved 5.7%. The party was thus represented with three members in the state parliament.[21]

In the 2021 municipal elections, the Team Carinthia competed in seven municipalities, in four of which they also made candidates for mayor's office. The arrival in the district capital Spittal an der Drau, the state capital Klagenfurt and the municipality Keutschach am See, where with the party chairman Köfer and Christian Scheider and Gerhard Oleschko, who left the FPÖ, three former mayors for the office of city council, were of particular importance.[22] or the head of the community were running. The mayoral candidates were able to prevail in all four municipalities (in addition to those mentioned in Sankt Georgen im Lavanttal).[23]

Gerhard Köfer - Chairman of Team Carinthia

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References[edit]

  1. ^ "Team Kärnten: Rückkehr des Populismus". derstandard.at. 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  2. ^ "Scheiders Facetten: Populist, Pragmatiker und später Papa". kleinezeitung.at. 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  3. ^ "Christian Scheider, der selbsternannte "Bürgermeister der Herzen"". kleinezeitung.at. 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  4. ^ "Gerhard Oleschko macht das gelbe Bürgermeister-Quartett komplett". kleinezeitung.at. 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  5. ^ "Was vom Team Stronach blieb". sn.at (Salzburger Nachrichten). 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  6. ^ "Gerhard Köfer kämpft ums politische Überleben". vienna.at (Russmedia). 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  7. ^ "Gerhard Köfer: "One Man Show" – halbiert, aber "überlebt"". diepresse.com. 2018-03-04. Retrieved 2021-03-17.
  8. ^ Archived (Date missing) at info.ktn.gv.at (Error: unknown archive URL)
  9. ^ Endergebnis der Landtagswahl in Niederösterreich 2013
  10. ^ Team Stronach Kärnten: Siegfried Schalli neuer Landesparteiobmann, 2. Oktober 2013
  11. ^ "Ungeheuerlich": Kärntner wehren sich gegen Stronach, 3. Oktober 2013, Die Presse online
  12. ^ Neue Obfrau soll Team Stronach retten, 15. Oktober 2013, Kleine Zeitung
  13. ^ Stronach/Köfer/Schalli: Andrea Krainer neue interimistischen Landesparteiobfrau in Kärnten, 14. Oktober 2013
  14. ^ Team Stronach darf doch im Landtag bleiben, 21. November 2013, ORF.at Kärnten
  15. ^ "Martin Rutter aus Team Kärnten ausgeschlossen". ORF. 2017-09-28.
  16. ^ "Parteiwechsel zeigt Auswirkungen im Landtag". ORF. 2017-12-14.
  17. ^ Team Stronach: Gerhard Klocker neuer interimistischer Landesobmann in Kärnten, 21. Dezember 2013
  18. ^ Gerhard Klocker neuer TS-Obmann, 12. April 2014, ORF.at Kärnten
  19. ^ Köfer/Klocker: Das „Freie Team Kärnten“ ist nun auch formell endgültig frei!, 1. Oktober 2016.
  20. ^ Team Kärnten: Köfer wieder an der Spitze, 26. November 2016, ORF.at Kärnten.
  21. ^ "Landtagswahl 4. März 2018". ktn.gv.at.
  22. ^ "Der Angriff der Ex-Bürgermeister". diepresse.com. 2021-02-22.
  23. ^ "Köfers "Team Kärnten" gewinnt Klagenfurt und Spittal". diepresse.com. 2021-03-14. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
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