Vorarlberg freedom

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Vorarlberg Freedom Party - FPÖ
Logo of the Vorarlberg Freedom Party
State party chairman Christof Bitschi
Club chairman Christof Bitschi
Country Managing Director Christian Klien
Headquarters Arlbergstrasse 79
6900 Bregenz
Seats in state parliaments
5/36
( LTW 2019 )
Website www.v Freiheitliche.at

The Vorarlberger Freiheitlichen (also FPÖ Vorarlberg ) are the regional party of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . From 1999 to 2004 you were the state governor in the Vorarlberg state government and, in continuity with your predecessor party WdU, were involved in the state government from 1949 to 2004 as a governing party with a state council.

After the state elections in Vorarlberg in 2019 , in which they suffered heavy losses , the Vorarlberg Freedom Party is currently the strongest opposition party with five seats in the Vorarlberg state parliament .

history

State elections 1949–2019
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The party statute of the Vorarlberg Freedom Party - FPÖ was deposited with the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior on April 15, 1977 . The Vorarlberg state party of the Freedom Party of Austria emerged from the electoral party of the Independents , which existed from 1949 and was founded a few years after the end of the Second World War and clearly after the three state-supporting parties at the time. Already after the first appearance in the state elections in Vorarlberg in 1949 , the WdU was accepted into the Vorarlberg state government as part of a concentration government of all parties represented in the state parliament (under the leadership of the Vorarlberg People's Party together with the SPÖ Vorarlberg ) . Ferdinand Ulmer was the first free state councilor for the WdU in the state government of Ilg II .

As FPÖ in the state government

For 60 years the Vorarlberg Freedom Party remained in the state government - from 1977 under a new party name. After the SPÖ left the state government in 1974, it was subsequently a junior partner in a coalition with the dominant Vorarlberg People's Party, which was always able to unite the absolute majority of votes and mandates. After this was no longer the case for the first time in the 1999 state election , the Vorarlberg Freedom Party was able to provide the state governor , the deputy governor, for the first time in a renewed coalition with the ÖVP with Hubert Gorbach . After Gorbach's move to federal politics as Federal Minister and later Vice Chancellor, Dieter Egger became state governor in the Sausgruber II state government on March 5, 2003 .

Split from the Federal FPÖ in 2005

On the occasion of internal party disputes, part of the FPÖ separated from the party at federal level in April 2005 and founded the Alliance Future Austria (BZÖ) under the leadership of Carinthian Governor Jörg Haider . With Vice Chancellor Hubert Gorbach, there was also a prominent Vorarlberger among those who split off from the FPÖ. Thereupon the Vorarlberg regional group of the FPÖ decided to go an independent way away from the federal FPÖ and the BZÖ under the party name Vorarlberger Freiheitliche , which is still in use today , and also broke away from the Freedom Party at the federal level. In December 2005, a small committee led by Klaus Bilgeri and Rainer Kos founded a new FPÖ regional group in Vorarlberg, which had the goal of legally and politically taking the place of the FPÖ Vorarlberg and later unsuccessfully to disbursing party funding from the state of Vorarlberg and because of name-related issues complained.

At the beginning of 2006, the Vorarlberg Freedom Party returned as an officially recognized state party to the Federal FPÖ under Heinz-Christian Strache . Bilgeri and Kos, who were not recognized with their own FPÖ state group, were subsequently excluded from the FPÖ by state party leader Dieter Egger. Around the same time, Christoph Hagen , who had previously been a member of the Federal Council for the FPÖ , established an independent BZÖ regional group in Vorarlberg, which, however, remained largely insignificant in terms of regional politics.

Exclusion from the state government in 2009

As part of the state election campaign in 2009 , Egger and Governor Herbert Sausgruber from the ÖVP fell apart in the context of the so-called “Exile Jew” -sager . State party chairman Dieter Egger had described the director of the Jewish Museum in Hohenems , Hanno Loewy , as "Jews in exile from America" ​​and his statements on the FPÖ's ongoing election campaign as inadmissible interference in domestic politics. Thereupon the ÖVP ruled out a renewed coalition with the FPÖ and sent it into the opposition for the first time in its history with the establishment of a sole government ( state government Sausgruber IV and state government Wallner I ).

In opposition from 2009

Even after the state elections in 2014 , despite talks with the ÖVP, there was again no coalition participation, as the People's Party preferred to form a government with the Greens. In the XXX. The Vorarlberg State Parliament's legislative period (2014–2019) was therefore the strongest opposition party with 9 out of 36 seats.

After the previous regional chairman Dieter Egger was able to win the repeat of the mayor's runoff election in Hohenems on December 20, 2015, Egger resigned as club chairman on December 23, 2015 when he was sworn in as Hohenems mayor. Egger remained a member of the state parliament for the FPÖ, but the club chairman was Daniel Allgäuer as his successor . As part of the state party conference on July 1, 2016, Egger handed over the office of state party chairman to Reinhard Eugen Bösch, Member of the National Council . On May 4, 2018, the state party announced another change of chairman: Christof Bitschi , the previous member of the state parliament , was nominated as the FPÖ top candidate for the state elections in Vorarlberg 2019 and was therefore elected chairman of the state party at a state party conference on June 8, 2018.

The politician Christoph Längle , who had previously been sent by the FPÖ to the Austrian Federal Council , resigned from the FPÖ in April 2019 after a conflict with FPÖ regional chairman Christof Bitschi over the ranking of the state list for the state elections, because of political content and differences over the leadership style of the state group . He was followed by the entire FPÖ community representation group in Götzis . A resignation of the FPÖ local group in Lorüns , which was also announced in the course of this, was withdrawn shortly afterwards after a conversation with Bitschi.

In the run-up to the state elections in Vorarlberg 2019 , the new state party chairman Christof Bitschi declared several times that he would rule out a coalition with the "Wallner-ÖVP" after the election. After he had softened this strict rejection a bit in the spring of 2019, Governor Markus Wallner rejected any coalition plans with the Vorarlberg Freedom Party in May 2019 after the so-called " Ibiza affair " around FPÖ Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache became known . In the election itself, the party suffered heavy losses and lost more than nine percentage points, as well as four state parliament mandates. As a consequence, the FPÖ, as the third largest party in the state parliament in the 31st legislative period (2019-2024), no longer had a state parliament vice-president and no longer had the right to propose a member of the Federal Council to be delegated .

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  1. ↑ a b c Bitschi elected FPÖ state party chairman. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . June 8, 2018, accessed June 8, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Directory of parties of the Federal Ministry of the Interior , as of 10 January 2018.
  3. ^ Vorarlberg FPÖ boss Egger is pushing for a split . Article on derStandard.at from April 26, 2005.
  4. ^ FPÖ splinter group: complaint dismissed . Article on vorarlberg.orf.at from November 22, 2007.
  5. ^ Vorarlberger FPÖ returns to the federal FPÖ . Article on derStandard.at from March 27, 2006.
  6. ^ Maria Stopfner, Hannes Vorhofer: The scandal as an instrument of election campaigning. The liberal "Exile Jew" -sayer in the 2009 state election campaign . In: Peter Bußjäger / Ferdinand Karlhofer / Günther Pallaver (eds.): Vorarlberg's political landscape . Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2010, ISBN 978-3-7065-4649-2 , p. 243-269 .
  7. ^ Jutta Berger : Vortex about anti-Semitic failures. In: derStandard.at . August 23, 2009, accessed April 30, 2014 .
  8. ^ Egger sworn in as mayor of Hohenems. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . December 23, 2018, accessed December 23, 2015 .
  9. ↑ a b c Bösch elected the new FPÖ chairman with 97.5 percent. vorarlberg.ORF.at , July 1, 2016, accessed on July 1, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Bitschi is to become the new FPÖ regional chairman. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . May 4, 2018, Retrieved May 4, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Federal Councilor Längle resigns from the FPÖ. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . May 16, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Tony Walser: Federal Councilor Christoph Längle explains why the Götzner FP mandataries declared their withdrawal from the party. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten . May 16, 2019, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Tony Walser: Tohuwabohu among the Freedom Party continues: Lorünser local group left the party and then rejoined. In: Vorarlberger Nachrichten . May 17, 2019, accessed May 19, 2019 .
  14. ↑ FP-Bitschi: No coalition with Wallner - ÖVP reacts sharply. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). June 9, 2018, accessed May 19, 2019 .
  15. ^ Wallner excludes FPÖ coalition at state level. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . May 18, 2019, accessed May 19, 2019 .
  16. ^ Vorarlberg election: ÖVP wins, Greens in front of the crashed FPÖ. In: ORF.at . October 13, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .