The Green Carinthia
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| Country spokeswoman: | Olga Voglauer |
| Organizational director: |
Jonathan Seriatz |
| Headquarters: | Bahnhofstrasse 38a 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee |
| Website: | The Green Carinthia |
Die Grünen Carinthia or Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative Kärnten is the autonomous regional organization of the Austrian party Die Grünen - Die Grüne Alternative in Kärnten . The Green Carinthia won five seats in the Carinthian state parliament in the 2013 state elections . In the state elections in Carinthia in 2018 , the Greens received 3.12% of the votes and thus did not make it into the Carinthian state parliament.
program
In their program, the Carinthian Greens define themselves as the party of citizens' initiatives or as the alternative that advocates an "ecological and socially long-term design" of the future and strives for "sustainable and safe solutions" to the climate and energy problem. The Greens put their basic values of ecology, solidarity, self-determination, grassroots democracy, nonviolence and feminism at the center of their program.
Structure and organs
Membership in the Carinthian Greens
Membership of the Carinthian Greens can be applied for by all natural persons who have reached the age of 14. They have to work in accordance with the basic values and in accordance with the program of the Carinthian Greens, adhere to the statutes and pay the annual membership fee to the regional organization. The right to be elected for internal party functions that are associated with legal liability applies to people over the age of 18. To apply for all other offices and functions, you must be 16 years of age.
The state board or district organizations with their own statutes decide on applications for admission, whereby a rejection can be claimed from the extended state board. If you have already become a member, gross violations of the statutes or damage to party interests can be expelled by the state peace court.
National Assembly
The state assembly is the highest decision-making body of the Carinthian Greens. It meets at least once per calendar year and is to be convened by the state executive and prepared by the extended state executive. In addition, the provincial executive committee must convene an extraordinary provincial assembly within five weeks if 20% of the members of the Green Carinthia request this or four members of the provincial executive decide with justification.
The tasks of the National Assembly include voting on changes to the statute as well as changes or new versions of the program, the decision on the budget and the voting out of officials or candidates with a two-thirds majority. A simple majority is used, among other things, to pass resolutions on alliances with other parties as well as the right to stand as candidates for non-members in state parliament and national council elections. The resolutions of the state assembly are binding for all other organs of the party.
Furthermore, all central personnel decisions are made within the Carinthian Greens at state assemblies. In addition to the internal functions such as those of the members of the regional executive committee, the auditors, the members of the peace court and the delegates to the federal congress, the state assembly also elects the candidates for the state elections and the state or regional candidates for national council elections. All members of the Carinthian Greens are entitled to vote at a regional assembly.
At the state assembly on July 1, 2017, the state spokeswoman Marion Mitsche was ranked, with the help of asylum seekers, on the hopeless ninth place for the upcoming state election. Subsequently, she resigned as state spokeswoman for the Carinthian Greens.
State Board
The state board manages the business of the party and implements the resolutions made by the state assembly and the extended state board. It meets at least once a month and as a collective body represents the interests of the state party internally and externally. The tasks of the state board include the preparation and decision-making of state-wide political strategies and concepts, financial decisions within the framework of the budget, the preparation of the budget proposal and closing of accounts, the coordination of campaigns and events at the state level and the decision on membership applications.
The state board consists of six to seven members who are elected by the state assembly for three years. The state board includes the state spokesman, his deputy, the finance officer and three other members. In addition, if there is no member of the state parliament among the other members, there is a delegated member of the Carinthian state parliament club. In addition, the state board includes the organizational management, which is not entitled to vote, but has the right to veto organizational issues. From the members of the state executive, the state spokesman, his deputy and the finance officer are entitled to a function fee, whereby the finance officer may not be a member of the state parliament at the same time.
Country spokesman, finance officer and management
The state spokesman or his deputy as well as the finance officer enjoy special status in the state board. The state spokesman represents the party externally and is responsible for the political implementation of the resolutions of the party committees. He also provides political support to the district and community groups and is a delegate to the state parliament club. The finance officer prepares the budget proposal and is responsible for payment transactions and ongoing controlling. The organizational management, on the other hand, is responsible for the organization and, together with the country spokesman, handles internal communication between the committees and with the members. She is also authorized to sign and is authorized to deliver.
In April 2018 Matthias Köchl succeeded Rolf Holub as state spokesman for the Greens. In February 2019, Köchl resigned from his position as state spokesman. In June 2019, Olga Voglauer was elected as state spokeswoman.
Extended state board
The extended provincial board is the second highest political decision-making body of the Green Carinthia after the provincial assembly. It consists of the members of the state board, a district representative or delegate from each of the recognized districts and the mandataries of the state parliament club as well as any state and federal councilors and meets at least eight times a year. The term of office of the extended state board is three years, that of the individual members ends with the new election of the respective function.
The tasks of the extended state executive include the discussion of political questions, the decision-making and coordination of state-wide activities such as elections and campaigns, the political preparation of state assemblies, the election of the delegates to the extended federal executive from the members of the extended state executive, the election and sending of delegates in boards of sub-organizations and recognized Green organizations, extraordinary financial decisions and the recognition or disqualification of community groups.
Election results
State elections
Up until 2004, Carinthia was the last federal state in which the Greens were not represented in the state parliament. Due to the difficult initial situation, the Greens often competed together with other parties, in particular with the Enotna Lista (unified list) of the Slovenian minority. When green groups first appeared in Carinthia, three green groups or groups close to green stood for candidates in the 1984 state elections: the United Greens of Austria (VGÖ), the List of Greens (GR) and the Carinthian Unity List and Alternative (KELALK). With 1.49%, the KELAK achieved the best result, the VGÖ achieved 1.13%, GR 0.69%. However, all three groups clearly failed in their entry into the state parliament. In the state elections in 1989 , the List of Other Carinthia , a party alliance of the unified list, the Greens and the movement against school separation, achieved 1.69%, the VGÖ achieved 1.59%. In the state elections in 1994 , the list tried their luck separately, with the parliamentary Greens as "The Green Alternative - Greens in Parliament" (GREEN) first tried their luck as a separate list. With 1.59%, they failed just as clearly when they entered the state parliament as did the unified list with 0.95% and the VGÖ with 0.35%. As a result, the Greens, the VGÖ, the Enotna Lista and the Liberal Forum (LIF) joined forces for the 1999 state election to form Platform Democracy 99 . Nevertheless, this electoral alliance also failed with 3.93% because it achieved a direct mandate that would have been necessary for entry into the state parliament. It was not until the state elections in 2004 that the Greens succeeded in entering the state parliament through a direct-mandate election campaign in the Klagenfurt constituency, where they achieved around 11% and a direct mandate. Overall, the Greens achieved 6.71% in the 2004 state elections. In the subsequent state elections in 2009 , the Greens lost around 1.5% of the vote and also their direct mandate in Klagenfurt. However, due to the lowering of the hurdle for entry into the state parliament to achieve at least 5% of the vote, the Greens just managed to return to the Carinthian state parliament with 5.15%. In the 2013 state elections , the Greens again achieved high profits, with the share of the vote more than doubling to around 12%.
From a regional point of view, the Carinthian Greens did best in state elections in the Klagenfurt area. In the state elections in constituency 1 (Klagenfurt and Klagenfurt-Land district ), they won a direct mandate with 11.07%, and in 2009 the Greens again performed significantly better than in the other constituencies with 8.64%. The second best region for the Greens was constituency 3 with Villach and the Villach-Land district , with the Greens finishing just below the national average with 6.15% and 4.87% respectively. On the other hand, the Greens remained well below the national average with 4.83% and 3.96% in constituency 2 (districts of Sankt Veit an der Glan , Völkermarkt and Wolfsberg ) and in constituency 4 with 4.76% and 3.51% ( Districts Feldkirchen , Hermagor and Spittal an der Drau ).
The next state elections took place in Carinthia in March 2018. The candidates were elected in a state assembly on July 1, 2017. Rolf Holub was the top candidate on the state list with almost 90% of the votes of the 184 members. The party did not get the votes it needed to move in.
Municipal council elections
In the municipal council elections in 2003, green lists stood for election in the ten municipalities of Klagenfurt , Villach , Feldkirchen in Kärnten , Krumpendorf am Wörthersee , Maria Rain , Völkermarkt , St. Veit an der Glan , Moosburg , Reichenfels and Wolfsberg , with a list in Velden am Wörther See from representatives of the Greens and the Slovene minority (GEL). The ten green lists achieved a total of 7,739 votes or a nationwide share of 2.4%. Compared to the municipal council election in 1997, this meant a gain of 1044 votes or an increase in the share of votes by 0.3%. When applied to the ten municipalities in which the Greens ran, this meant an average result of 6.7%. The Greens achieved their best result in Klagenfurt with 10.1%, their second best result in Krumpendorf with 6.5%. In Klagenfurt the Greens won four seats and for the first time a seat in the city council (previously one seat), in Villach they had two seats. In addition, the Greens won one mandate each in Feldkirchen, Krumpendorf, Maria Rain, St. Veit and Völkermarkt, with the Greens winning a total of eleven mandates. In Moosburg, Reichenfels and Wolfsberg, however, the Greens failed because they were allowed to join the municipal council.
In the municipal council elections in 2009, the Greens competed in 22 municipalities, with the Greens running in all the municipalities in which they stood in 2003, except in Moosburg and Reichenfels. In addition, there were the communities of Hermagor-Pressegger See , Maria Saal , Schiefling am See , Liebenfels , Lurnfeld , Mallnitz , Spittal an der Drau , Bad Bleiberg , Finkenstein am Faaker See , Treffen am Ossiacher See , Wernberg and Eisenkappel-Vellach . In Keutschach am See and Velden there was an alliance of the unity list with the Greens (GEL). Together with the electoral alliances, the Greens in Carinthia achieved a share of 3.4% or 12,004 votes in 2009. With the exception of Liebenfels and Treffen, all communities were able to enter the local council. The Greens achieved their best result with 12.2% in Maria Saal (3 seats) and in Klagenfurt with 11.7% (5 seats). In Villach and Keutschach the Greens were able to win two mandates each, in the other municipalities they got one mandate each. Together with the results in Velden and Keutschach, the Greens won 28 seats.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Olga Voglauer new state spokeswoman for the Greens. Retrieved June 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Program of the Carinthian Greens ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 397 kB), as of January 2009.
- ^ Die Presse: Greens: "Putsch" with the help of asylum seekers ; Retrieved July 12, 2017
- ^ ORF-Online: Green state spokeswoman resigned ; Retrieved July 12, 2017
- ↑ Carinthia: Suspicion of smuggling: Green spokesman resigns . Article dated February 18, 2019, accessed February 18, 2019.
- ↑ orf.at: Köchl new state spokesman for the Greens . Article dated April 28, 2018, accessed April 28, 2018.
- ↑ management team. Retrieved April 14, 2018 .
- ↑ thomas.trescher: Analysis: The green failure continues in Carinthia . ( kurier.at [accessed on March 7, 2018]).
- ^ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government, Provincial Statistical Office: Municipal elections and mayoral elections 2003 in Carinthia. Klagenfurt 2003.
- ^ Office of the Carinthian Provincial Government, Provincial Statistical Office: Municipal council elections and mayoral elections 2009 in Carinthia. Klagenfurt 2009.
