Salzburg citizens list

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The Salzburg Citizens' List is a political grouping that emerged in 1975 in the Austrian capital of Salzburg . It was the first green movement to win elections in Austria. The party, which has been successful from the start, has six councilors and one councilor today (1018) with 15.2% (2019) of the vote.

history

The citizens 'list emerged from a protest movement by citizens' initiatives , which addressed the planned construction of the large green areas on the southern edge of the city of Salzburg along Hellbrunner Allee and in Freisaal . In addition to the preservation of historically significant cultural landscapes, the activists also tried to protect Salzburg's old town . In this regard, the well-known art historian from the University of Salzburg, Hans Sedlmayr , acted as mentor and admonisher (also with the book "City without Landscape - Salzburg's Fate Tomorrow ?, 1970).

Shortly before the municipal council elections in October 1977, the United Citizens Lists - Rettet Salzburg list was formed , which received 5.6% of the vote. On October 2, 1977, the Salzburg Citizens' List won two seats, which were filled by Herbert Fux and Richard Hörl.

The citizens' list initially positioned itself as a fighter against building speculation and its liaison officers in the established parties and received national attention. In 1982 she achieved 17.7% of the vote and six seats in the city parliament. Johannes Voggenhuber became city ​​councilor for environmental protection, spatial planning, traffic and old town preservation . The old town was given a continuous pedestrian zone and a grassland declaration was passed . Voggenhuber also set up a design advisory board .

After the slight election defeat in 1987, the citizens' list lost two seats. A new team headed by Johann Padutsch and Elisabeth Moser set out on the way to consolidating the previously rather loose internal structures. The "bourgeois-green" issues of environmental and grassland protection were gradually pushed into the background by social issues, human rights and cultural issues. But this also intensified the internal conflicts, especially after the election success in the municipal council elections of 1992 (16.5%), which helped Johann Padutsch to become vice mayor and city councilor for planning, traffic , nature conservation and the environment.

The pragmatic integration of the former protest party into city politics ultimately led to a break with "founding father" Herbert Fux. According to Padutsch, his resistance to social housing in the south of the city was no longer compatible with the concerns of the citizens' list. Fux saw the goals of his original protest movement seriously endangered. In 2004, the citizens' list achieved a 15.11% share of the vote. Regardless of their change of goal, the citizens' list remained a political tip on the scales. While the Salzburg Land citizens' list was renamed Die Grünen Salzburg , the city greens stayed with the name Bürgerliste (abbreviated: BL ), but since June 2007 they have had the addition of Die Grünen in der Stadt .

In the municipal council elections in 2009 , the citizens' list received 16.42% of the vote. She continued to be represented in the city government with Johann Padutsch as a city councilor and six other municipal council members.

The 2014 municipal council election resulted in small losses for the citizens' list, they received 13.5% of the vote (2009: 16.4%).

In June 2018 Martina Berthold was elected chairwoman and Anna Schiester her deputy. They succeeded Johann Padutsch and his deputy Inge Haller. Padutsch stated that he wanted to hold the office as a city councilor until the 2019 municipal council election .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Salzburg: municipal council elections 2009, election results , accessed on March 4, 2013.
  2. ↑ orf.at: Citizen List: Berthold takes over from Padutsch . Article dated June 26, 2018, accessed June 28, 2018.

Web links

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  • Hans Sedlmayr: City without a landscape - Salzburg's fate tomorrow? Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg, 1970
  • Heinz Dopsch and Robert Hoffmann: History of the City of Salzburg, Verlag Anton Pustet Salzburg, 1st edition 1996
  • Richard Hörl: Die Salzburger Bürgerrevolte 1972–1982, Verlag Edition Tandem and Salzburg City Archives, 2014
  • Statistical yearbook of the city of Salzburg 2018, (annual publication of the city)