State election in Carinthia 2013

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Turnout: 75.15%
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2009

2013

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Remarks:
a 2009 "The Freedom in Carinthia - BZÖ List J. Haider"
h 2009: including FPÖ with 3.76%
      
A total of 36 seats
     
A total of 7 seats

The state elections in Carinthia 2013 took place as an early election on March 3, 2013. The state elections in Lower Austria in 2013 took place on the same day . The early election became necessary after the Carinthian state parliament had unanimously dissolved after numerous corruption scandals . The voter turnout of 75.15% was 6.63 percentage points lower than in 2009.

After the last election cards were counted on the following Monday, a single vote was decisive for the fact that one mandate more than previously determined has migrated from the BZÖ to the Greens, which resulted in a joint two-thirds majority for the parties SPÖ, ÖVP and Greens. This circumstance was ascribed a high symbolic power, because “it contradicts the widespread opinion that 'a single vote cannot do anything anyway'.” The constitution-amending two-thirds majority was subsequently used to abolish party proportional representation in the state government in 2017 .

Starting position

In the state elections in Carinthia in 2009 , Bündnis Zukunft Österreich (BZÖ) became the party with the highest number of votes, with the party running for the first time since it split from the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Governor Gerhard Dörfler became . The FPÖ, the strongest party in 2004, could no longer move into the state parliament.

As of December 2009, all members of the BZÖ-Carinthia state parliament left the BZÖ-Klub and joined the FPÖ-Association, so the Freedom Regional Group became independent again. They renamed the party "Die Freiheitlichen in Kärnten - FPK (FPÖ)". The reason for the exit was internal party disputes between the Federal BZÖ and the Carinthian BZÖ.

In January 2010, the later so-called part-of-the-game affair was reported for the first time. The then Deputy Governor of Carinthia, Uwe Scheuch, offered a Russian investor the prospect of Austrian citizenship in exchange for investments in Carinthia and party donations to the then BZÖ. Scheuch was sentenced in the first instance to six months of unconditional imprisonment in the summer of 2011, but this was overturned in the second instance. In the following year Scheuch was again found guilty in the first instance, the verdict was much milder with a fine and a conditional prison sentence. On December 19, 2012, the guilty verdict was confirmed. Scheuch received a fine of 67,500 euros and was sentenced to seven months of conditional imprisonment. Scheuch had already resigned from all political functions in the summer of 2012. His brother Kurt Scheuch followed him as deputy governor and councilor .

In July 2012, another corruption case in Carinthia became public due to the confession of tax advisor Dietrich Birnbacher and then Carinthian ÖVP boss Josef Martinz . They testified that Birnbacher's fee, which was obtained from Hypo Alpe Adria, was used to finance the ÖVP and the FPK (then BZÖ). Because of this news, Martinz resigned and the SPÖ, ÖVP and the Greens agreed on a new election application in the Carinthian state parliament. This could be blocked by the FPK in twelve special sessions of the state parliament, as this party could make the committee incapable of making decisions due to its number of mandates. It was not until mid-December 2012 that an agreement was reached on state elections on March 3, 2013. As a result of the ruling, the public prosecutor's office for corruption initiated an investigation against Uwe Scheuch and Harald Dobernig (both FPK).

At the same time, a number of other scandals put the FPK under pressure. Investigations are ongoing against several people from the environment of the FPK and BZÖ, as election advertisements were allegedly financed from state funds. An advertising agency owned by FPK is suspected of having issued invoices for bogus orders to companies that received orders from the country. The state government was criticized for failed prestige projects like the Klagenfurt stadium or the Wörtherseebühne , the operation of which caused high costs. The former Hypo-Alpe-Adria managers Wolfgang Kulterer and Gerhard Xander were sentenced to prison terms because, on the instructions of Jörg Haider , they had issued an unsecured loan to the Styrian Spirit airline, which was already troubled at the time .

The state's economic situation had developed unfavorably since the FPÖ entered government, the unemployment rate was 12.7% in January 2013, and Carinthia also has the highest per capita debt of all federal states. The resident population of the state has been falling for several years, which is attributed to the emigration of qualified workers.

Lists

The following ten lists were available:

The originally planned candidacy of the Liberal Forum party did not materialize.

Survey

Since the party financing affair surrounding Dietrich Birnbacher became known, more and more surveys have been carried out. These sometimes gave very different results. Compared to the surveys, the preliminary final results for the ÖVP were in the lower range, the Greens and the Stronach team were slightly in the upper range of the forecast range. As expected, the BZÖ exceeded the threshold for entry into the state parliament by one percentage point. With significant deviations, the SPÖ was about 5–6 percentage points above the forecasts of most institutes, the FPK with 6–10 percentage points below the forecasts.

Official end result

Parties with the highest number of votes by municipality
Final result of the state election 2013
Results 2013 Results 2009 Differences
be right % Mand. be right % Mand. be right % Mand.
total 331.207 75.15% 36 362,680 81.78% 36 - 31,473 - 6.63%
Invalid 6,924     6,406     + 518  
Valid 324.283 97.91% 356.274 98.23%   - 31,991 - 0.32%
Political party                  
The freedom in Carinthia 54,634 16.85% 6th 159,926 44.89% 17th - 105,292 - 28.04% - 11
Social Democratic Party of Austria 120,396 37.13% 14th 102,385 28.74% 11 + 18,011 + 8.39% + 3
Austrian People's Party 46,696 14.40% 5 59,955 16.83% 6th - 13,259 - 2.43% - 1
The Greens - The Green Alternative 39.241 12.10% 5 18,336 5.15% 2 + 20,905 + 6.95% + 3
Team Stronach 36,256 11.18% 4th nk
Alliance Future Austria 20,745 6.40% 2 nk
Pirate Party of Austria 3,199 0.99% 0 nk
Social Alliance Carinthia 747 0.23% 0 nk
List Stark 488 0.15% 0 208 0.06% 0 + 280 + 0.09% ± 0
Livable party of Austria 1,881 0.58% 0 nk
Communist Party of Austria nk 1,893 0.53% 0
Freedom Party of Austria nk 13,383 3.76% 0
Gaddafi Party Austria nk 188 0.05% 0
See also
List of Members of the Carinthian State Parliament (31st legislative period)

consequences

Due to the massive losses of the FPK, its executive party chairman Kurt Scheuch resigned on March 4, 2013. After the election, the SPÖ and the Greens, who for the first time in the history of Carinthia have a majority in the state parliament and the state government, agreed to work together. Talks followed with the ÖVP about a three-party coalition that would have a two-thirds majority in order to be able to change the state constitution. This finally came about. The BZÖ lost a mandate to the Greens by counting the postal votes due to a single vote, which is why they applied to the state electoral authority for a new count, which was rejected. An election challenge at the Constitutional Court has been announced.

The election result led to a power struggle in the FPÖ. The Federal FPÖ demanded that the FPK MPs Dörfler, Dobernig and Anton renounce their state parliament mandates, which the three MPs initially rejected. After a few days of internal negotiations, Dörfler was persuaded to give up his state parliament mandate with the Federal Council mandate of the FPK. Dobernig renounced his mandate and received an "advisory contract" from the FPÖ, Anton remained in the state parliament and was accepted into the FPK club. This meant that the FPK did not have to forego state club funding, and the party split that had previously been publicly debated did not take place.

Due to the still valid system of proportional representation , the Carinthian state government was established under Peter Kaiser with the participation of the SPÖ, ÖVP, Greens, FPK and Team Stronach.

At the beginning of August 2019, the Kronen Zeitung reported in the course of the shredder affair that after the state elections and the defeat of the Carinthian Freedom Party, around 36.5 tons of documents and 18 data carriers were said to have been shredded.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Carinthia election is likely to be violent. Kleine Zeitung , December 14, 2012
  2. see e.g. B. Report by the Greens on the results of the committee of inquiry to clarify allegations of corruption (681 pages)
  3. Results of the state elections ( memento of the original from September 9, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / info.ktn.gv.at
  4. Peter Ibounig, Winfried Valentin, Wilfried Kofler: The state elections on March 3, 2013 - Main results for Carinthia. Office of the Carinthian State Government, State Office for Statistics (Ed.), March 2013, p. 25
  5. bang in Carinthia: Birnbacher and Martinz confess party financing. Der Standard, July 25, 2012
  6. Why the Carinthians choose a year earlier. Der Standard, March 1, 2012
  7. ^ Carinthian political scandals - A selection of the current affairs. Kleine Zeitung , July 26, 2012
  8. Small Chronicle of Carinthian Scandals: Part 3. Small newspaper , August 28, 2012
  9. Waldner wants to close the Klagenfurt floating stage. The press, February 22, 2013
  10. http://kaernten.orf.at/news/stories/2570618/ , ORF Kärnten, February 8, 2013
  11. ↑ The number of unemployed rose again , ORF Carinthia, January 2, 2013
  12. Carinthians are the “debt emperors”. ( Memento from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Kleine Zeitung , April 8, 2012
  13. Balance: Carinthia is experiencing its blue economic miracle , Die Presse, August 1, 2012
  14. Sequence for voting papers established. ( Memento from September 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Kleine Zeitung , January 30, 2013
  15. Liberal Forum makes a comeback in Carinthia. DiePresse.com, August 24, 2012
  16. Time in Fig. 2 from March 4, 2013, time period 4:30 to 6:42
  17. Political quake is announced in Carinthia , today, February 21, 2013
  18. Survey: SPÖ and Greens must tremble for a majority in Carinthia , Der Standard, February 10, 2013
  19. SPÖ pulls away in a survey , Oe24.at, February 9, 2013
  20. ^ The mood in Carinthia (PDF; 296 kB), Institute for Basic Research, January 17, 2013
  21. ^ Carinthia - final result of the 2013 state elections
  22. FPK showdown: Dörfler & Co do not do without, currently no club status, Strache threatens south , Der Standard, March 19, 2013
  23. Carinthia election 2013: 36 tons of paper are said to have been shredded. In: diepresse.com. August 1, 2019, accessed August 1, 2019 .
  24. Shredder orgy: 36.5 tons of files destroyed. In: krone.at. August 1, 2019, accessed August 1, 2019 .