Social progress party of South Tyrol
| Social progress party of South Tyrol | |
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| Party chairman | Egmont Jenny (1966–1978) |
| founding | 1966 |
| resolution | 1978 |
| Landtag mandates |
1/34 |
| Chamber of Deputies |
0/630 |
| Senators |
0/315 |
| Alignment | social democratic |
| colour | red |
The Social Progressive Party of South Tyrol (SFP) was a political party with a social democratic orientation that was founded in 1966 by the Bolzano doctor Egmont Jenny . It was represented in the South Tyrolean parliament from 1966 to 1968 and from 1973 to 1978 and therefore also in the regional council of Trentino-South Tyrol .
history
The foundation goes back to the efforts of the Austrian Foreign Minister and later Chancellor Bruno Kreisky to actively support the formation of a social democratic component within the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) as part of his commitment to solving the South Tyrolean question . Kreisky made it possible in 1964 to nominate the Bozen doctor Egmont Jenny as SVP candidate for the state parliament. After his election to the state parliament, Jenny gave a social democratic party component its first structures by founding the "South Tyrolean Working Group for Social Progress". Citing the repeated violation of parliamentary group discipline in state parliament votes, Jenny was expelled from the SVP in 1966 and, with the support of the SPÖ , immediately founded the Social Progressive Party of South Tyrol (SFP), which he represented in the state parliament until 1968. In the municipal council elections in 1969, the SFP won a total of 24 municipal council mandates in 17 municipalities in South Tyrol.
On the occasion of the Italian parliamentary elections in 1972, the SFP decided not to run independently and recommended the election of the Trentino socialist Renato Ballardini ( PSI ), who, during the negotiations on the Second Statute of Autonomy, campaigned as a member of the Parliamentary Commission of Nineteen for the interests of the German- and Ladin-speaking South Tyroleans would have. The election recommendation for an Italian candidate led to the split in the SFP and, on the occasion of the state elections in 1973, to the parallel founding of the Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol (SPS) around the former SVP parliamentarian Hans Dietl . Due to the increase in the state parliament mandate from 25 to 34 seats, the SFP was able to obtain a remaining mandate for Egmont Jenny despite the loss of votes . After a failed merger with the SPS in 1976, the party was no longer able to defend its seat for Jenny in the 1978 state elections . The last SFP municipal councilors left their mandates in 1980.
Content focus
In its action program from 1967, the party committed itself to the principles of democratic socialism and was generally guided by the political line of the SPÖ under the leadership of Bruno Kreisky. In the 1960s and 1970s, the SFP took a stand on numerous socio-political issues in South Tyrol , and in the course of implementing the Second Statute of Autonomy , it advocated the expansion of educational structures, the creation of jobs, a strengthening of pluralism of opinion, gender equality and campaigned for a social modernization and the connection of South Tyrol to Europe.
The SFP always remained an ethnically closed party in the political landscape of South Tyrol, which was based primarily on sympathizers from the western half of the country and from the urban, German-speaking milieu, even though the party made several credible attempts at Jenny's initiative to open up to the Italian-speaking electorate and to cooperate with Italian parties in their political camp.
Alexander Langer succeeded in collecting a first cross-language group movement with the state parliament list Neue Linke / Nuova Sinistra , which made it into the state parliament in 1978 parallel to the decline of the SFP and was later able to establish itself as a green alternative list in the South Tyrolean party landscape.
literature
- Joachim Gatterer: "Red mites in the plumage". Social democratic, communist and green alternative party politics in South Tyrol . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Vienna-Bozen 2009, ISBN 978-3-7065-4648-5 .