Young People's Party

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Board
Federal Chairman: Stefan Schnöll
Deputy: Nico Marchetti
Claudia Plakolm
Patrik Fazekas
Raphael Wichtl
Lukas Schnitzer
Bernhard Heinreichsberger
Melanie Laure
Secretary General: Laura Sachslehner
Website: http://www.junge.oevp.at/

The Young People's Party (JVP), actually the Young ÖVP , until 1971 the Austrian Youth Movement , is a political youth organization and one of the six sub-organizations of the Austrian People's Party .

structure

Its aim is to represent political interests for young people up to the age of 35. It is organized in nine regional groups, which are further divided into district and local groups. The federal organization has its seat in Vienna , the minimum age for joining is 15 years, when you reach the age of 35 you (normally) leave the organization. The JVP claims to have around 100,000 members.

Political content

The Young People's Party was founded in 1946 as an independent federation within the ÖVP. Their political orientation is described as Christian Democratic . The JVP is committed to “an independent Austria and European integration”. Within the ÖVP, the Young People's Party was the first federation to support Austria's accession to the then European Community .

The JVP often took positions that brought it into conflict with the federal party, but since its inception it has been the party's most important instrument for addressing young voters.

history

The JVP was founded in 1945 as the "Austrian Youth Movement" and initially saw itself as a preliminary organization of the ÖVP. In 1971 it became - under the name Young People's Party - an equal part organization of the party. Some district and local organizations use the earlier designation as an addition to the name to this day.

The pro-European line of the organization was especially sharpened under Federal Chairman Othmar Karas , who led the JVP from 1981 to 1990. Under him, the "young blacks" within the ÖVP applied for Austria to join the European Community at that time .

"Torment bigwigs, choose Himmer"

From 1990 Harald Himmer took over the Young People's Party. The National Council election campaign in 1990 also took place during his time as Federal Chairman. Like most of the younger candidates, the then 26-year-old was placed on a rather hopeless list. During the election campaign he therefore tried to win a mandate through preferential votes, and put up stickers with the inscription “Bonzen torment - choose Himmer” with the subtitle “Bonzen, do you want to eat forever?”. Under the motto “Diet proposals against the Political Slavery ”for a press conference. His demands were a restriction of parliamentary activity to two terms of office in a row and a right to vote. Harald Himmer did not get the necessary number of preferential votes through his campaign to be able to move into the National Council. In 1993 Himmer handed over his office to Werner Amon.

With Werner Amon in the National Council for the first time

In 1993 Werner Amon from Styria was elected as the new federal chairman. A year later, he moved into the National Council for the Young ÖVP and was involved in parliament from that point on. As a former federal school spokesman, he established a close cooperation relationship between the federal JVP and the student union , which is why he also became a sponsor of the then federal chairwoman of the student union Silvia Grünberger.

Silvia Grünberger - the first federal chairwoman

At the Bundestag in Knittelfeld , Silvia Grünberger ( née Fuhrmann ) was elected the first federal chairwoman in the history of the organization in 2001 with 91 percent. During her tenure, she held a. a. in the areas of military and community service as well as intergenerational justice, but soon came under criticism due to her style, which parts of the organization regarded as "idiosyncratic" (including "Wurstsemmelsager"). Not least so Gruenberger had 2,004 at the Bundestag in Linz with Lukas Mandl an opposing candidate. However, she won the election with 64.7 percent. In 2007 it reached 53.4 percent in Alpbach with no opposing candidates. This result ultimately triggered an internal JVP discussion about Grünberger. A change at the top of the federal organization was soon openly called for within several regional organizations. The JVP regional groups in Styria and Carinthia also confirmed this through board resolutions to hold an extraordinary Bundestag. Grünberger finally gave in to internal pressure on May 3, 2009 and an agreement was reached on the then Viennese JVP boss Sebastian Kurz , who was unanimously chosen by the JVP federal management as the new chairman.

The JVP in the Sebastian Kurz era

In June 2009 Sebastian Kurz was elected as the new JVP Federal Chairman in Eisenstadt with 99 percent of the delegate votes. He dedicated the first phase of his work to the internal stabilization and reorientation of the young ÖVP, both in terms of content and personnel. He achieved a high level of attention with z. Sometimes provocative campaigns. In the Viennese municipal council elections on October 10th, he received 858 preferential votes and entered the state parliament. On April 21, 2011, Kurz was sworn in as the new State Secretary for Integration as part of a cabinet reshuffle - at the age of 24, he was the youngest member of the government in the history of the Second Republic. On April 14, 2012, the JVP presented its proposals for the expansion of direct democracy in Austria at its Bundestag in Graz. Sebastian Kurz was also confirmed with 100 percent in his office as federal chairman.

After the 2013 National Council election , Asdin El Habbassi from Salzburg and Eva-Maria Himmelbauer from Lower Austria, two MPs from the ranks of the young ÖVP, were represented in the National Council. Sebastian Kurz has been Austrian Federal Minister for European and International Affairs since December 16, 2013 .

After 2004, Linz was again the venue for a JVP Bundestag on January 10, 2015, where Kurz was once again confirmed in his office with 100 percent. In addition, the JVP decided on a catalog of demands, which u. a. included a detailed preferred voting model for obtaining mandates. After Sebastian Kurz took over the chairmanship of the ÖVP in May 2017, there was also a change at the top of the young ÖVP. Stefan Schnöll succeeded Sebastian Kurz, who had headed the Young ÖVP since 2009.

Federal Chairman Stefan Schnöll

At the Bundestag of the Young ÖVP on November 25, 2017, Sebastian Kurz officially handed over his role as Federal Chairman to his successor, Stefan Schnöll. In addition to Schnöll, Nico Marchetti , Claudia Plakolm , Patrik Fazekas , Raphael Wichtl , Lukas Schnitzer , Bernhard Heinreichsberger , Melanie Laure and Dominik Schrott were elected as deputies, Laura Sachslehner was appointed general secretary of the JVP. In addition, a lead proposal with 100 goals was approved.

Overall, the Young ÖVP at the beginning of the XXVI. Legislative period (2017) eight members of the National Council, in addition to Schnöll, Marchetti, Plakolm and Schrott, these were Martina Kaufmann , Klaus Lindinger , Johanna Jachs and Eva-Maria Himmelbauer . After Dominik Schrott resigned from all political offices in August 2018, Sophia Kircher was elected regional chairwoman by the board of the Young People's Party in Tyrol.

At the beginning of the XXVII. In the legislative period (2019), the Young ÖVP has nine members of the National Council. Corinna Scharzenberger from Styria and Carina Reiter from Salzburg are new, and Martina Kaufmann, Nico Marchetti, Claudia Plakolm, Johanna Jachs, Klaus Lindinger, Eva-Maria Himmelbauer and Lukas Brandweiner are also represented . Marlene Zeidler-Beck continues to represent the concerns of the young ÖVP in the Federal Council .

In June 2020, Claudia Plakolm was designated as the successor to Stefan Schnöll as federal chairwoman of the young ÖVP.

Memberships

At the European level, the JVP is a member of the YEPP . Five of its nine national organizations are also members of the Young Alpine Region .

Former federal chairmen of the Young People's Party

literature

  • Günther Steiner: Consistently the right way. A reader on the 60th anniversary of the Young ÖVP Austria. Molden Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85485-159-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Courier: Young ÖVP: Briefly handed over the chairmanship to Schnöll . Article dated November 25, 2017, accessed November 25, 2017.
  2. ^ The Young ÖVP according to sub-organizations of the ÖVP, § 5 Abs. 1 lit. a) of the Federal Party Organizational Statute of the Austrian People's Party in the version of July 1, 2017 ( full text online on the Federal Public Transport Authority's website, accessed on July 2, 2019).
  3. ↑ JVP Vienna: Our history  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / jvpwien.at  
  4. ↑ An "ex-rascal" is to become VP boss in Vienna in Der Standard from November 5, 2009 (accessed on November 5, 2009)
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  6. ^ Young blacks: New leadership after quarrels
  7. ↑ Preference vote results of the elections to the Vienna City Council and State Parliament. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 3, 2013 ; Retrieved May 20, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  8. ↑ Oliver Pink : Justice for Sebastian Kurz. In: The press . April 22, 2011, accessed April 23, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Briefly re-elected as JVP chairman with 100 percent. In: The press . April 14, 2012, Retrieved April 16, 2012 .
  10. ↑ Concern of the JVP on the Bundestag 2015. Accessed on January 12, 2015 .
  11. ^ Kurier: Young ÖVP: Briefly handed over the chairmanship to Schnöll . Article dated November 25, 2017, accessed November 25, 2017.
  12. ↑ JVP: Our Members . Retrieved November 25, 2017.
  13. ↑ orf.at: Sophia Kircher takes over JVP chairmanship . Article dated September 1, 2018, accessed September 1, 2018.
  14. ↑ New chairwoman of the Young People's Party . Article dated February 23, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019.
  15. ↑ Young ÖVP will be represented in parliament with 10 members in the future. October 5, 2019, accessed October 5, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Claudia Plakolm (25) becomes the new head of the Young ÖVP. In: Kurier.at . June 26, 2020, accessed June 27, 2020 .
  17. ↑ In short: “I don't eat sausage rolls” (interview). June 25, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2016 .