Alternative list for the other South Tyrol
| Alternative list for the other South Tyrol | |
| Party chairman | Alexander Langer (top candidate) |
| founding | 1983 |
| resolution | 1988 |
| Landtag mandates |
2/35 |
| Chamber of Deputies |
0/630 |
| Senators |
0/315 |
| Alignment | inter-ethnic , eco-social |
The alternative list for the other South Tyrol (short: ALFAS ; Italian: Lista alternativa per l'altro Sudtirolo ; Ladin : Pësc , in German again synonymous with peace ) was a non-party electoral list that was established in 1983 at the instigation of the later top exponent of the Green parliamentary group in the European Parliament , Alexander Langer , and the prominent extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner . From 1983 to 1988 she was represented in the South Tyrolean state parliament and therefore also in the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol .
history
The alternative list for the other South Tyrol (ALFAS) was created on the occasion of the South Tyrolean state elections in 1983 as a continuation of the content of the previous list Neue Linke / Nuova Sinistra (NL / NS). Analogous to its election campaign from 1978, ALFAS collected and specified its topics and candidates a few months before the election date in various informal meetings. In addition to top exponent Alexander Langer , the then already known extreme mountaineer Reinhold Messner acted as the ideal promoter .
The Landtag list retained the cross-language character of the NL / NS, but with 19 German and 16 Italian-speaking candidates consisted mainly of German-speaking representatives, while the NL / NS had still mainly made Italian-speaking candidates. The proportion of women (10 out of 33 candidates) had increased slightly compared to 1978.
With almost 13,000 votes, ALFAS was able to slightly improve the result of the NL / NS, and with 4.52% of voter consensus, it achieved two out of 35 state parliament mandates. In addition to Alexander Langer, who was able to add a second mandate to his first legislative period (1978–1981) after a rotation-related interruption, the women's rights activist Andreina Ardizzone Emeri made the leap into the state parliament for the first time. After her unexpected demise in 1985, Arnold Tribus was the first to succeed in the state parliament.
Content focus
The alternative list for the other South Tyrol built on the core issues of the NL / NS, whereby it continued their anti-elitist organizational principles ( grassroots movement ) and the open criticism of the institutionalized separation of the South Tyrolean language groups ( ethnic proportionality ).
At the same time, Alexander Langer in particular pursued the opening of the West German New Left in the direction of the environmental movement - a process that had led to the emergence of the Green Party in the Federal Republic in the early 1980s . Langer viewed the newly launched topics of environmental protection and sustainable management as necessary responses to global challenges, which must always be met with specific measures in the local context (“think globally, act locally”).
In this sense, Langer acted as a broker of green issues to South Tyrol through the ALFAS list; He also became an organizational pioneer of the Italian green movement, which formed an alliance (“ Federazione dei Verdi ”) for the first time on the occasion of the 1987 parliamentary elections . In the same year, the South Tyrolean ALFAS list also took part in the support campaign in the run-up to the national referendum against the civil use of nuclear power .
On the occasion of the South Tyrolean state elections in 1988 , ALFAS finally ran as a green alternative list , which from the mid-1990s was able to consolidate itself in the South Tyrolean party landscape as Verdi Grüne Vërc in the long term .
literature
- Joachim Gatterer: "Red mites in the plumage." Social democratic, communist and green alternative party politics in South Tyrol . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck / Vienna / Bozen 2009, pp. 162–165 u. 170-179, ISBN 978-3-7065-4648-5 .