The freedom in Carinthia

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The freedom in Carinthia
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State party leader Gernot Darmann
Club chairman Christian Leyroutz (State Parliament)
founding September 13, 1986
Headquarters Klagenfurt
Seats in state parliaments
9/36
Website http://www.fpoe-ktn.at/

The Freedom Party in Carinthia is the name of the regional group of the FPÖ Carinthia, which from 1986 to 2005 already belonged to the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) as a regional group. After that she was part of the newly founded Alliance Future Austria (BZÖ) until 2009 , which was led by Jörg Haider until his death. This was followed by a renewed rapprochement with the FPÖ, which it approached from 2010 under the abbreviation "FPK", but initially continued to run under its own name. On June 28, 2013, the decision was made to dissolve the FPK as an independent party and to reunite it as a state group with the federal party.

history

founding

On June 5, 1955, the Freedom Party of Carinthia was founded out of the Association of Independents . Reinhold Huber became the first state party leader . On November 3, 1955, the Freedom Party of Austria was founded. The Carinthian Freedom Party took part in the establishment, but the state party remained an independent association.

Promotion under Jörg Haider

In 1983, the previous party secretary Jörg Haider took over the party chairmanship from Mario Ferrari-Brunnenfeld . Under Haider, who became chairman of the Federal FPÖ in 1986, the party rose to become the strongest political force in Carinthia by 1999. From 1989 to 1991 and from 1999 to 2008 Haider was the governor of Carinthia.

Split from the FPÖ

Logo during independence

In April 2005, under the leadership of Jörg Haider and his sister Ursula Haubner, the Alliance Future Austria (BZÖ) split off from the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) . Except for Carinthia, where the alliance around Jörg Haider provided the governor, the alliance was not able to prevail in any of the federal states of Austria. Haider died in a car accident in October 2008. After that there were always internal party conflicts about the profile of the BZÖ and about Haider's legacy around the third camp .

For the Carinthian state elections on March 1, 2009, the Carinthian BZÖ ran under the list name Die Freiheitlichen in Kärnten - BZÖ List Jörg Haider (BZÖ) . This election was won, following on from Haider's successes, and the Carinthian regional organization of the Alliance Future Austria ( Die Freiheitlichen in Kärnten ) continued to provide the provincial governor, Gerhard Dörfler . As a result, there were power struggles between the federal organization, the Carinthian state party around Dörfler and the state party chairman Uwe Scheuch and alliance chairman Josef Bucher .

Independence and cooperation with the FPÖ

After the occurrence of the Hypo-Alpe-Adria affair, part of the Carinthian National Council members of the Alliance Future Austria, now under the party name Die Freiheitliche in Kärnten - Freedom Party of Carinthia (FPK) , split on December 16, 2009 from the BZÖ parliamentary club and its Party off. Governor Gerhard Dörfler later joined the FPK.

On June 21, 2010, the FPK and the federal FPÖ under Strache concluded a cooperation agreement based on the CDU / CSU model, whereupon the chairman of the Carinthian regional organization of the FPÖ, Harald Jannach, resigned, who saw it as "the end of the independence of the FPÖ Carinthia". However, he retained his mandate as a member of the National Council , which he had received in 2008 as a result of the FPÖ federal election proposal.

Gernot Darmann Christian Ragger Christian Ragger Kurt Scheuch Uwe Scheuch Uwe Scheuch Jörg Haider Martin Strutz Jörg Freunschlag Jörg Haider

The cooperation between the FPK and the FPÖ (" cooperation yes, fusion no ") should initially focus on the co-opting of the regional party leader of the FPK, Uwe Scheuch , and the then regional governor of Carinthia, according to the FPK announcement " while fully preserving the independence of our Carinthian community of supporters " Dörfler , in the federal party executive committee of the FPÖ as well as from its federal party executive committee Strache and Mölzer , the executive FPÖ state party chairman Christian Leyroutz and his deputy Bernd Brandner in the executive committee of the FPK, various personnel and structural cooperations as well as the cooperation at election campaign events.

After the state elections in Carinthia in 2013 , in which the FPK lost more than half of its votes, party chairman Kurt Scheuch resigned on March 4, 2013. Christian Ragger took over the post of party chairman. The Federal FPÖ demanded that Dörfler, Dobernig and Anton waive their state parliament mandates. The three MPs refused, which threatened a split in the FPK and the loss of club status. In the meantime, the Federal FPÖ considered terminating the association with the FPK.

Reintegration into the FPÖ

On June 28, 2013, a special party conference of the FPK decided to dissolve the party and from now on to work again as a regional group with the FPÖ. The previous FPK chairman Christian Ragger became the regional party chairman of the reunified FPÖ Carinthia. Shortly beforehand, the State Audit Office had determined that the FPK could not prove the appropriate use of its party funding.

Chair since 1986

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Der Standard : "Carinthia is again free and undivided" , June 28, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Die Presse : End of a special case: FPK and FPÖ unite , June 28, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c ORF special case "Freedom in Carinthia"
  4. ↑ Kleine Zeitung on December 19, 2009: Ultimatum and orange power struggle
  5. ↑ In Carinthia the emotions are high: “Traitor from home” Strache is booed , News.at on June 22, 2010; "Supporters of the Carinthian FPÖ boss Harald Jannach, who only resigned in the afternoon, booed Strache and loudly accused him of" treason "."
  6. ↑ a b FPÖ: Chairman Jannach resigned , kaernten.orf.at on June 21, 2010
  7. ↑ "Cooperation FPÖ / FPK" ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2010 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. , FPK website - TOP NEWS No. 12 (PDF)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / freiheitliche-ktn.at
  8. ^ "Mölzer accepted into the FPK board" , Der Standard on June 28, 2010
  9. ↑ Kurt Scheuch resigned , article on ORF .at from March 4, 2013
  10. ↑ FPK showdown: Dörfler & Co do not do without, currently no club status, Strache threatens south , Der Standard, March 19, 2013.
  11. ^ FPÖ threatens to terminate cooperation , Kleine Zeitung, March 19, 2013.
  12. ^ "Team Dörfler" wants to found its own party , Kurier, March 14, 2013
  13. ^ FPÖ Carinthia: No proof for 154,000 euros? In: The press . July 30, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2013 .

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