JUNOS - Young liberal NEOS
The JUNOS - Young Liberal NEOS are the youth association of the NEOS - Das Neue Österreich and Liberales Forum party . As such, they are also full members of IFLRY and LYMEC .
JUNOS emerged from the Young Liberals Austria , a party and student union group that existed until then. Since October 2012, it has been supporting the NEOS party as a youth partner, into which it finally integrated as a youth association on March 22, 2014.
Federal Executive
The incumbent federal executive was on XXI. Federal Congress in Vienna on November 2, 2019 and consists of:
- Anna Stürgkh (Federal Chairwoman)
- Paul Pfahnl (Deputy Federal Chairman)
- Julia Deutsch (General Secretary)
- Elma Jusic (federal state development)
- Peter Berry (program)
- Jan Ritter (communication)
- Bastian De Monte (networking)
- Stephen Slager (Chair of JUNOS Students)
history
Established as a liberal student forum
The Young Liberals were founded under the name Liberales Studentinnenforum (LSF) at the same time as the Liberal Forum in 1993, after the Liberal Forum split off from the FPÖ under Jörg Haider due to the increasingly right-wing populist line of the FPÖ . The LSF was only available for election for the first time in the ÖH elections in 1995, after there had been an election platform with the United Green Austrian Students belonging to the moderate wing in 1993. The LSF also suffered from the fact that the Liberal Forum had not been represented by a parliamentary group since 1999 - the election results have been falling continuously since 1999, a trend that was only temporarily halted in 2005 at a low level. In 2005, the ÖH federal representation was elected according to the new electoral law and direct elections were abolished. In the 2007 ÖH election, the LSF lost all mandates on university representations and was overtaken in the federal representation for the first time since the Liberals were founded by the FPÖ-affiliated Ring Freedom Students (RFS).
Reorganization as JuLis
At the federal forum of the LSF in January 2009, far-reaching innovations were decided. On the one hand, the LSF, which had already appeared on various occasions under the name JuLis , was finally renamed JuLis - Junge Liberale Österreich , on the other hand a new association structure was created.
On April 20, 2009 the member of the European Parliament Karin Resetarits announced that she would enable the Young Liberals to run for the European elections in Austria 2009 by signing their supportive signature on the electoral list . This was preceded by the considerations of the Liberal Forum to take part in person - the signature of Karin Resetarits, which had been promised for a long time, surprisingly gave this to the Young Liberals; Efforts by July Chairwoman Alegra Raising were decisive in this regard. This step led to a significant alienation of the Julis from their former parent party LIF, since then the JuLis have appeared independently. The Young Liberals competed in the 2009 European elections with the most recent list of all eight parties. The leading candidate in was Graz living Carinthian Hannes Müllner. With 0.7 percent of the vote (20,668 eligible voters), the entry into the European Parliament did not succeed .
Also in the 2009 ÖH election, July competed at numerous universities, including all major universities with the exception of the University of Vienna . At the University of Vienna, the Young Liberals failed for formal reasons and could not run at all, and the list association required for entry into the ÖH federal representation was not allowed. The July were therefore not represented in the ÖH representative body from 2009 to 2011, neither in university representations nor in the federal representation of the ÖH.
On the III. Federal Congress in Vienna on October 30th and 31st, 2010, the JuLis announced a candidacy in the 2011 ÖH elections and unanimously decided on a “Liberal University Program”. Furthermore, Nikolaus Scherak was elected as the new federal chairman. The Students' Union -Wahlen 2011 JuLis won three seats in the Federal representation and more mandates in individual university representatives ( University of Vienna , Vienna University of Economics , Vienna University of Technology ).
Cooperation with the NEOS
On October 27, 2012, the JuLis took part in the founding of the NEOS party - The New Austria and Liberal Forum . JuLis chairman Nikolaus Scherak was elected to the board of NEOS. The JuLis initially continued to exist as an independent organization.
In the 2013 ÖH elections, the JuLis achieved the highest percentage gain of all participating parliamentary groups with + 2.2% and were able to double their mandates in the university representatives from four to eight. In addition to the University of Vienna , the Vienna University of Economics and Technology and the Vienna University of Technology , the JuLis were also represented at the Karl-Franzens University Graz , the Technical University Graz and the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck .
On March 22, 2014, at a federal congress in Salzburg, the party was renamed JUNOS - Young Liberal NEOS and thus integrated into the NEOS party structures. The national chairman of JUNOS was the previous JuLis chairman and NEOS member of the National Council, Nikolaus Scherak, who was previously a member of the NEOS board. At the XI. Federal JUNOS Congress in Vienna, Scherak resigned as chairman of the JUNOS party and subsequently handed over the leadership of the NEOS party youth to Douglas Hoyos , who had previously been one of his deputies. On the XXI. Federal Congress of JUNOS in Vienna, Hoyos resigned as chairman in 2019 and handed over the leadership to Anna Stürgkh, who had previously been on the national board for three years and the last two years of which worked as Hoyos' deputy.
Results of ÖH federal representative elections
| LSF 1 and JuLis 2 in the ÖH federal representative elections | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| year | Top candidate | Votes 3 | BV mandates |
| 1995 | Johannes Vetter | 8.8% | 6th |
| 1997 | Udo Pappler | 10.4% | 7th |
| 1999 | Andreas Putz | 9.9% | 4th |
| 2001 | Michaela Köberl | 5.3% | 2 |
| 2003 | Florian Schweitzer | 3.4% | 1 |
| 2005 | Martin Ehrenhauser | 3.9% | 1 |
| 2007 | Philipp Weingartshofer | 2.27% | 1 |
| 2009 | Alegra-Isabel Raising | 1.7% | 0 |
| 2011 | Claudia Gamon | 4.32% | 3 |
| 2013 | Claudia Gamon | 6.4% | 3 |
| 2015 | Nicholas Swatek | 11.2% | 6th |
| 2017 | Yannick Shetty | 12.61% | 7th |
| 2019 | Nino Rohrmoser | 10.26% | 6th |
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1 to 2007 2 from 2009 3 The federal representation was not directly elected between 2005 and 2013, the percentages are therefore only of limited significance. |
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ JUNOS elect the first federal chairperson. November 2, 2019, accessed November 3, 2019 .
- ↑ LIF representative Ronald Pohoryles in his blog: Why the LIF is not running for the EP elections ( Memento of May 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), April 27, 2009
- ↑ European elections 2009; the candidate parties ( Memento from May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Die Presse : Liberal Cabal: JuLis compete instead of LIF , April 29, 2009
- ^ Die Presse : ÖH election: Liberals fail due to legal hurdles , May 13, 2009
- ↑ http://www.oeh.ac.at/uploads/media/Listenverbaende_09.pdf (link not available)
- ^ The Liberal University Program
- ↑ Die Presse : Universities should freely decide on the allocation of study places , May 29, 2011
- ^ Die Presse : NEOS: Die Neue im Mitte , October 27, 2012.
- ^ Die Presse : ÖH election: Students close to the ÖVP continue to advance , May 17, 2013
- ↑ FM4 : ÖH elections 2013: The results , May 16, 2013
- ↑ JuLis are now called JUNOS and are part of NEOS . Article on derStandard.at from March 22, 2014.
- ↑ Jürgen Klatzer, Paul Batruel: JUNOS: “The government does not take ÖH seriously”. Kurier.at, May 7, 2017, accessed on February 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Announcement of the election results, on wahl2017.oeh.ac.at. Accessed February 7th
- ↑ Retrieved June 9, 2019
Clubs: Action Community (AG) | Association of Austrian Socialist Students (VSStÖ) | Green & Alternative Students (GRAS) | Independent student council lists of Austria (FLÖ) | JUNOS - Young Liberal NEOS (JUNOS)
Fractions without club status: Communist Student Union - Left List (KSV-LiLi) | Ring of Freedom Students (RFS) | No ma'am | Communist Student Association (KSV)