Lambert Schönleitner

Lambert Schönleitner (2015)

Lambert Schönleitner (* 1970 ) is a Styrian politician ( Greens ) and has been a member of the Styrian Landtag since 2008 .

Life

Schönleitner, a landscape gardener and florist by profession, represented the Greens from 1995 to 2008 in the town council in Hall near Admont and on March 11, 2008, moved to the state parliament. He took over the chairmanship of the control committee. He also became the area spokesman for the topics of transport, nature conservation, spatial planning and agriculture. In 2011 he became chairman of the petitions committee in the state parliament, and in this role he increasingly campaigned for civil rights, for example in the controversial forced community mergers in Styria.

Within the party, Schönleitner is also district spokesman for the Greens in the Liezen district and, since February 2007, spokesman for the Greens in Upper Styria. He was last confirmed in office as Upper Styria spokesman in June 2009.

Schönleitner made a name for himself as an internal critic after the Greens' losses in the 2005 state elections and criticized the election campaign and the party leadership. After club boss Ingrid Lechner-Sonnek no longer ran as a top candidate in the state elections in 2010, Schönleitner brought himself into play as a top candidate for the state elections in the summer of 2009, seeing the chances of his party in particular in the “bourgeois camp”. In spring 2014 he decided to run for the 2015 state election as the top candidate of the Greens. On June 14, 2014, Schönleitner was elected the top candidate for the 2015 state elections by the Styrian Green members with 91.2 percent, and on the same day he was also elected as the new state spokesman for the Greens. In the state elections on May 31, 2015, he and the Greens achieved the best result in history with 6.7 percent, after he had mainly focused on the environment, education and transparency during the election campaign. Afterwards he was also elected club chairman of the Greens in the state parliament. When asked about his greatest political successes, Schönleitner mentions the successful resistance against a planned motorway through the Ennstal and the fight against a planned mining project in Hall / Admont. On January 22, 2019, Schönleitner announced that he no longer wanted to run as a top Green candidate in the 2020 state elections , but instead wanted to run second behind Sandra Krautwaschl on the list . After the Greens achieved the best result ever in the state elections on November 24, 2019, Krautwaschl was elected as the new club chairwoman at Schönleitner's suggestion at the first club meeting.