For Innsbruck

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For Innsbruck (FI), an electoral list that was formed in 1994 in the regional capital of Tyrol , Innsbruck , was a split from the local ÖVP against the then mayor of Innsbruck, Romuald Niescher , and chose yellow as the identification color. The list was headed by the challenger, the native Upper Austria and son-in-law of the former Governor of Tyrol, Eduard Wallnöfer , Herwig van Staa , who also became mayor of Innsbruck after the election.

Current logo from Für Innsbruck, as of Feb. 2012

The list "For Innsbruck" succeeded in the municipal council elections in 2000 in winning an absolute majority in Innsbruck together with the ÖVP and the list of the Tyrolean Seniors' Association. After Herwig van Staa was elected Governor of Tyrol by the ÖVP, Hilde Zach succeeded him as Mayor of Innsbruck in 2002.

In the municipal council elections on April 23, 2006 Für Innsbruck was confirmed as the party with the strongest vote with 26.8%, but had to accept a minus of 9.4 percentage points compared to 2000. Mayor Zach was elected mayor for another six years in the local council by a yellow-black-red coalition on May 8, 2006.

Hilde Zach withdrew from politics due to health problems and was replaced by Christine Oppitz-Plörer on March 8, 2010 . After Oppitz-Plörer took over the leadership of "Für Innsbruck", more and more prominent founding members distanced themselves from the movement. a. GR Hans Haller, Franz Eberharter, LTP Herwig Van Staa, GR Herlinde Keuschnigg and Christoph Platzgummer.

Christoph Platzgummer left the so-called citizens' movement "For Innsbruck". In 2012 he ran as a top candidate on the list of the Innsbruck People's Party against the list "For Innsbruck". The list "For Innsbruck" lost first place in the municipal council and the Innsbruck People's Party became the strongest parliamentary group. Oppitz-Plörer was just able to assert himself in the mayoral election with the help of the Greens.

In the mayor's election in spring 2018, the FI list leader Christine Oppitz-Plörer was voted out of office as mayor.

The list itself suffered significant losses in the previous municipal council election. FI Vice Mayor Christoph Kaufmann lost his office. Without an advertisement, he got a post as a manager (head of department) at the Olympia Sports and Event Center Innsbruck GmbH (OSVI / Olympiaworld), which aroused a lot of criticism from the media and political competitors.

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