Christine Oppitz-Plörer

Christine Oppitz-Plörer (2012)

Christine Oppitz-Plörer (born June 7, 1968 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian politician ( for Innsbruck ). From 2010 to 2018 she was mayor of Innsbruck, from 2018 to October 2019 she was vice mayor. She has been a city councilor since October 11, 2019.

Life

In 1986 she passed her Matura at the Ursuline School of Economics and then attended the commercial academy in Innsbruck until 1988. She studied economics; She finished her studies in 1993. She was employed at the Tiroler Landeskrankenanstalten GmbH from 1996 to 2002 and at the same time attended an apprenticeship course from 1999 onwards, which she completed in 2002 with a degree in hospital management.

Oppitz-Plörer is (as of 2014 or earlier) a member of the Catholic women's student union AV Aurora Innsbruck and the mixed student union AV Claudiana Innsbruck.

politics

Christine Oppitz-Plörer was elected to the Innsbruck municipal council in 2000. In June 2009 she was elected second deputy mayor. On March 8, 2010, she was elected mayor of Innsbruck by the local council as the successor to Hilde Zach .

On April 29, 2012, Oppitz-Plörer was re-elected - this time directly. With its liberal-conservative list “ For Innsbruck ”, it lost more than six percent in the municipal elections on April 15, 2012, and the party with the strongest vote was the ÖVP under Christoph Platzgummer . In the first direct mayor election, Oppitz-Plörer was just ahead of Platzgummer with 31 percentage points, so a runoff was necessary. After the first ballot, Oppitz-Plörer kept a clear distance from the state ÖVP, which clearly supported Christoph Platzgummer . She said she had agreed on a coalition with the Greens . In contrast to Platzgummer, she ruled out a cooperation with the FPÖ. After winning the runoff election, Oppitz-Plörer forged a coalition with the Greens and the SPÖ, which can rely on a majority in the local council and city senate. The Innsbruck ÖVP was sent into the opposition for the first time since 1945. The great tension between the mayor and the state ÖVP meant that Oppitz-Plörer was stripped of his seat on the state board of the ÖVP and it was announced that the For Innsbruck mandatars could no longer be party congress delegates. The party was excluded for the time being, but later automatically lost ÖVP membership by virtue of the statute of the Tyrolean People's Party.Out of anger over Christoph Platzgummer's re-candidacy, Oppitz-Plörer founded a new list in 2013 together with the former politician Anna Hosp and other proponents (including KO Lukas Krackl) “ Vorwärts Tirol ” at the state level. As a result, there were quarrels between the founding members of the new list, the " Impulse Tyrol " list was later split off and re-established and there were long legal disputes due to uncovered election campaign costs.

In the municipal council and mayoral elections in Innsbruck in 2018 , Oppitz-Plörer again ran as the top candidate on her list for Innsbruck . The party became the third strongest force, after the Greens and the FPÖ. Oppitz-Plörer came into a runoff election with the candidate of the Greens, Georg Willi , as neither of the two candidates got more than 50 percent of the vote. Willi also won this run-off election on May 6, 2018 and thus became mayor of Innsbruck.

On the night of October 10th to 11th, 2019, she was voted out of office as Vice Mayor (on the list for Innsbruck) by the municipal council, and has been a city councilor since then. The request for dismissal was introduced by Rudi Federspiel (FPÖ) and the List Gerechtes Innsbruck (GI) and supported in the vote by the Greens, Gerechtes Innsbruck, FPÖ , ALI, NEOS and List Fritz . The core of the dispute is the increase in costs from € 41 million to € 66 million (still without final billing) for the construction of the new Patscherkofelbahn , which went into operation in December 2017, and the lack of information about this for the city senate or local council. This makes her the first female politician in the history of the Tyrolean state capital to be voted out of office as mayor by the people and a few months later to be voted out of office as vice-mayor by the local council. Ursula Schwarzl was elected as her successor as Vice Mayor in November 2019 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Innsbruck Vice Mayor recalled. In: ORF.at . October 11, 2019, accessed October 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} City Senate Members. In: innsbruck.gv.at. November 21, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Mag. A Christine Oppitz-Plörer elected by a large majority as the new deputy mayor ( memento of the original from March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ Oppitz-Plörer elected mayor In: ORF online from March 8, 2010
7. ↑ Decision in the mayor's duel In: ORF online from April 30, 2012
8. ↑ ^{a b} The "Fall of Man" from Innsbruck - Tyrol. DerStandard.at , accessed on June 2, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Swearing in by the mayor In: ORF online from May 18, 2012
10. ^ Willi new mayor of Innsbruck . May 6, 2018 ( orf.at [accessed May 7, 2018]).
11. ↑ Uschi Schwarzl new Vice Mayor. In: ORF.at . November 12, 2019, accessed November 12, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Uschi Schwarzl is the first vice mayor. In: ORF.at . November 21, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .