Team HC Strache - Alliance for Austria

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Team HC Strache - Alliance for Austria
Party logo of the HC Strache team
Federal party chairman Heinz-Christian Strache
Vice Chairman Karl Baron
Secretary General Christian Höbart
founding December 12, 2019
Place of foundation Vienna
Headquarters Ebendorferstrasse 4, 1010 Vienna
National Council mandates
0/183
Federal Council mandates
0/61
Seats in state parliaments
4/440
Minimum age 16
Alignment Right-wing populism
National liberalism
National
conservatism EU skepticism
Economic liberalism
Mandates in the European Parliament
0/19
Website www.teamhcstrache.at

Team HC Strache - Alliance for Austria (short form: HC ) is a right-wing populist party in Austria that was founded in December 2019 under the former name Die Allianz für Österreich (DAÖ) by three Viennese members of the Vienna City Council and State Parliament ( FPÖ ), led by Karl Baron , was founded. This was preceded by their separation from the FPÖ club and the formation of their own club under the name DAÖ - Vienna . DAÖ announced that they want to run in the Vienna state and municipal council elections in 2020 with Heinz-Christian Strache as the top candidate. Strache himself confirmed his participation in the party after long hesitation at the end of February 2020. At an extraordinary party congress of the DAÖ on May 14, 2020, the party changed its statutes, elected a new board with Strache as federal party chairman and changed its name to "Team HC Strache - Alliance for Austria ”.

Party history

Ibiza affair as a prehistory

The then Vice Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache had to resign from his offices in the course of the Ibiza affair in May 2019. The FPÖ federal party under Norbert Hofer spoke out against further political activity by Strache after allegations about false expense reports, which had become known in September 2019 and suspended him on October 1.

In the Vienna state party, where Strache had started his political career, he still had supporters. After speculation that the supporter Karl Baron Strache could enable a return to politics by running for the Chamber of Commerce elections, Baron was voted out of office as president of the free economy in Vienna in December 2019 .

Party formation

After several weeks of internal party turmoil, Karl Baron, Dietrich Kops and Klaus Handler finally announced on December 12, 2019, at a press conference, that they were leaving the Vienna FPÖ state party and the state parliament and local council club, after they had their own club called DAÖ shortly before - founded Vienna . The founding of the associated nationwide political party Die Allianz für Österreich ( DAÖ for short ) was also announced. Gernot Rumpold , former federal manager of the FPÖ, was hired as a PR advisor to DAÖ . As a result of the events in the Vienna Landtag, the FPÖ tried not to present the exit of the three mandataries as a split in the FPÖ. The Mayor of Vienna Michael Ludwig described the exit from the FPÖ City Hall Club as a "party political decision of the mandataries concerned."


With or without Strache: Vienna election 2020

Heinz-Christian Strache with the DAÖ founders at their “New Year's Meeting” in January 2020

On December 13, 2019, Strache was finally expelled from the FPÖ, which had only suspended its membership until then, after a meeting of the party court and the Vienna state party executive. Strache then announced that he would think about his next steps over Christmas.

On December 15, he ruled out any interest in chairing DAÖ and wished for a more sustainable project for his return. In contrast, the party reaffirmed in January 2020 that Strache would be its top candidate and announced his appearance as a speaker at the party's so-called “New Year's Meeting” on January 23rd in the Vienna Sofiensäle .

Shortly afterwards, he announced on his Facebook account that a “strong HC STRACHE LISTE (The Alliance for Austria) for Vienna” was needed.

In his speech at the event on January 23rd, in which Strache “settled” with the FPÖ and in which he described the “FPÖ line after him as 'ingratiation' and with false friends”, he did announce that he would appear the Viennese state election, but did not directly confirm that he wanted to do so as the top candidate of DAÖ. First of all there will be talks with the DAÖ club chairman Karl Baron, among other things, and a few “homework” needs to be done before the official announcement. He promised his fans who were present: “I will not let you down.” David Krutzler from Standard saw this as a delaying tactic with which Strache wanted to “keep interest in his person simmering” and that he had hinted that DAÖ at Vienna Wahl would be renamed Strache List. Strache's attacks and the portrayal that the FPÖ had “lost head, heart and soul” after leaving, caused “outrage among his ex-party”. He also said that without him, the Viennese Freedom Party would be below ten percent in the Vienna election and would "disappear into insignificance". In response to this, Michael Stumpf , state party secretary of the Vienna FPÖ, called his ex-boss “an 'egomaniac' who suffers from 'overestimating himself'. 'The FPÖ is more than Mr Strache.' " Dominik Nepp , the managing FPÖ boss in Vienna, wrote in an internal communication to his officials that Strache had given all those voluntary supporters, members and functionaries of the FPÖ mocked ”who“ stuck posters, distributed notes and exposed themselves to hostility from political competitors for 15 years in wind and weather for him and the success of the Freedom Party ”.

While Strache and the DAÖ founders were ready for a group photo at the “New Year's Meeting”, the party played the world hit Live Is Life by Opus . Since the DAÖ had not obtained permission from the band for this, they announced that they would examine legal steps against the unsolicited use. The party then signed a cease and desist declaration.

Strache at the DAÖ Ash Wednesday meeting 2020, where he officially announced for the first time that he would be running in the Vienna election .

During the “New Year's Meeting”, Allianz already announced an “Ash Wednesday meeting with HC Strache” for Austria on February 26, 2020, now without the addition of “guest speakers”. In the run-up to this Ash Wednesday meeting, Strache announced that he would make his candidacy official there. Final confirmation followed at a press conference at the end of April 2020.

In the run-up to the election, the small party Wandel raised the charge that Strache's main residence was not in Vienna, but in Weidling - Klosterneuburg and that he was therefore not allowed to run for office in Vienna. Even before the district electoral authority decided to recognize Strache's place of residence in Vienna, Strache presented a team of twenty candidates for the state election with himself at number one on the list. In places two to five follow club chairman Karl Baron, the technical employee and architecture student Raphaela Goeschl-Marambio and the DAÖ co-founders Dietrich Kops and Klaus Handler. After the list was published, some of the candidates were criticized for statements made earlier. One candidate had chanted anti-Semitic slogans such as “ Soros must go!” And “ Rothschild must go!” At a corona demonstration , another candidate had insulted Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in a video and questioned the existence of the virus. A third, a medical officer by profession, had recommended in a foreword to the book " Flu wave through chemtrails " by the pop singer Christian Anders his "book about the vaccine plows" (meaning the book Der Impfwahnsinn ). The political analyst Peter Filzmaier pointed out the connections of the extreme right and conspiracy ideological milieu to Strache and said: “Anyone who has not turned away from him through Ibiza and everything that Strache delivered afterwards, can no longer be shaken by anything. "

organization

Federal party and regional groups

The founding statutes of the political party "DAÖ - The Alliance for Austria" of December 12, 2019 were published on the party's website in January 2020 as required by law and the statutes were documented in the list of parties at the Federal Ministry of the Interior in the January 21, 2020 version . At the same time, the filing of the statutes DAÖ - The Alliance for Austria, Vienna Regional Group, on December 16, 2019, became public, with which this regional party also acquired legal personality.

At the beginning of April 2020, the majority of the FPÖ district group in the Oberpullendorf district switched to DAÖ. It thus formed the first structure of the party outside of Vienna. Based on this district group, the Burgenland regional group of the HC Strache team is to emerge by the municipal council elections in 2022 . Their designated spokesman and initiator of the split is the former FPÖ district spokesman Herbert Adelmann .

During the press conference on May 15, 2020, Strache indicated that some prominent FPÖ members would consider switching to Team Strache. The former member of the National Council, Christian Höbart , was already present during the press conference and was introduced shortly afterwards as the Lower Austrian state spokesman for the party, campaign manager in Vienna and team secretary general.

Representative body in Vienna

Due to the club status of the Vienna City Council and State Parliament Club DAÖ - Vienna , which was founded in December 2019 , it was entitled to up to EUR 62,200 club funding per month and EUR 76,500 per quarter for training and further education measures. In addition, the City of Vienna had to provide the club with premises (575 m²) and work infrastructure.

On January 9, 2020, three FPÖ district councils from Vienna's 10th  district of Favoriten switched to DAÖ and thus founded the first DAÖ district council club. In the further course of the year party conversions followed in the districts of Landstrasse , Meidling ,   Liesing Brigittenau , Favoriten and Penzing . In July 2020, Günter Kasal, a fourth member of the state parliament, moved from the FPÖ to the Strache team. Kasal was also district party chairman in Hietzing , with him four of the seven FPÖ district councils there changed to the new party. For the 2020 district council elections, the HC Strache team submitted nominations for all 23 districts.

Trivia

Political competitors and the general public also abbreviate the Team HC Strache party because of its name as "THC", which is also the abbreviation for tetrahydrocannabinol , the active ingredient in the drugs marijuana and hashish .

Web links

Commons : DAÖ - The Alliance for Austria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b David Krutzler, Fabian Schmid: Six fists for a Haceluja: three FPÖ MPs from Vienna found their own club. Local councils founded “The Alliance for Austria” In: Der Standard , December 12, 2019, accessed on January 28, 2020.
  2. ^ A b FPÖ Vienna: Strache supporters found their own club. In: ORF.at . December 12, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Strache announces his candidacy for the Vienna election. In: Kurier.at. February 20, 2020, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  4. ^ Statutes of the HC Strache team. May 14, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Strache's new party is called "Team HC Strache". In: derStandard.at. May 15, 2020, accessed May 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Strache supporter Baron loses position. Karl Baron is no longer President of the Freedom Economy Vienna. He was voted out. (...) He wants to keep his mandate on the local council for the time being. In: Vienna. ORF.at . December 9, 2019, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Strache before exclusion? Hofer plays down the FPÖ spin-off. In: ORF.at . December 12, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Kickl does not believe in the success of DAÖ. In: ORF.at . December 15, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Rosa Winkler-Hermaden: New club: DAÖ takes place in Vienna's state parliament on Wednesday. First meeting with FPÖ spin-off on expenses scandal and gold discovery - Strache does not want to become party leader. In: The Standard . December 16, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  10. ↑ DAÖ - That says Vienna's mayor. In: oe24.at . December 12, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  11. ^ Theo Anders, Andreas Danzer: After the exclusion: Verbal attacks and accusations between Strache and Nepp. The ex-vice chancellor sees himself as a victim and leaves a political comeback open. The Viennese FPÖ boss Dominik Nepp criticizes Strache's self-indignity. In: DerStandard . December 13, 2019, accessed December 13, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Strache does not want DAÖ chairmanship. In: Vienna. ORF.at . December 15, 2019, accessed December 16, 2019 .
  13. ↑ David Krutzler: Strache appears as a guest speaker at the DAÖ event. The ex-FPÖ boss will speak as a guest speaker in the Sofiensaal on January 23rd. “We assume that H.-C. Strache will be our top candidate, "says DAÖ club boss Baron. In: The Standard . January 10, 2020, accessed January 10, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Next indication of Strache's candidacy. With a Facebook post, Heinz-Christian Strache fueled speculation about his candidacy in the Vienna state elections. Strache also mentions The Alliance for Austria (DAÖ), where he appears on January 23. In: Vienna. ORF.at . January 12, 2020, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  15. ↑ geka: Vienna election: Strache only suggests appearing again. In: ORF.at . January 23, 2020, accessed on January 23, 2020 : “The Alliance for Austria (DAÖ) held its New Year's meeting in Vienna on Thursday. Guest speaker or better star guest: ex-FPÖ boss Heinz-Christian Strache. Above all, he reckoned with the FPÖ line after him as 'ingratiation' and with false friends. He didn't let the cat out of the bag again when it came to candidacy in Vienna. "
  16. ↑ a b David Krutzler: After the DAÖ guest speech: Strache is an “egomaniac with overconfidence” for Viennese FPÖ. The former vice-chancellor's party expects a candidacy for the DAÖ in the Vienna election after his appearance. In: The Standard . January 24, 2020, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  17. ↑ a b DAÖ: After Strache appearance: FPOe feels mocked, Opus checked suit. In: Die Presse / APA . January 24, 2020, accessed January 24, 2020 .
  18. ↑ DAÖ will in future be without the opus hit "Live Is Life" at party events. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
  19. ^ Vienna election: Strache stands for DAÖ. In: ORF.at . February 26, 2020, accessed July 18, 2020 .
  20. ↑ DAÖ-Ash Wednesday meeting with HC Strache. February 26, 2020 | Prater Alm Vienna. Entry on the DAÖ website, January 23, 2020, accessed on January 24, 2020.
  21. ↑ Strache wants to become mayor of Vienna. In: wien.orf.at. April 30, 2020, accessed April 30, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Strache is confident. In: wien.orf.at. August 11, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Werner Reisinger: After the Ibiza affair: Strache returns - with dubious colleagues. In: Augsburger Allgemeine. August 17, 2020, p. 3 (print edition) , accessed on August 17, 2020 .
  24. ↑ List of the statutes deposited with the Federal Ministry of the Interior in accordance with Section 1, Paragraph 4 of the PartG ( PDF; 1.2 MB ), as of January 21, 2020. See also Section 1, Paragraph 4 of the 2012 Political Parties Act: “The political parties must adopt statutes they have to be deposited with the Federal Ministry of the Interior. [...] With the deposit of the statutes, the political party acquires legal personality. The statutes are to be published on the Internet by the political parties in a suitable manner. "
  25. ↑ Most of the FPÖ-Oberpullendorf changes to DAÖ. In: burgenland.orf.at. April 5, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Adelmann wants to set up the Burgenland regional group quickly. In: bvz.at. April 6, 2020, accessed April 6, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Strache: "I behaved to be embarrassed". In: wien.orf.at. May 15, 2020, accessed May 16, 2020 .
  28. ↑ 62,200 euros club funding for DAÖ. In: Vienna. ORF.at . December 12, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 .
  29. ↑ David Krutzler, Oona Kroisleitner: Dreimannpartei DAÖ is entitled to 575 square meters of office. In: The Standard . December 17, 2019, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  30. ↑ David Krutzler, Oona Kroisleitner: Change of party: New defectors and speculation about Strache appearance at DAÖ event. In: The Standard . January 9, 2020, accessed January 10, 2020 .
  31. ↑ Other district councils switch to DAÖ. According to a broadcast by the new town hall faction, which was brought into being by renegade FPÖ mandataries, three FPÖ district councils will found a DAÖ club in the Landstrasse district. In: ORF.at . January 17, 2020, accessed January 17, 2020 .
  32. ↑ DAÖ District Council Club in Vienna highway. LAbg. Dietrich Kops: Allianz's second district council club for Austria has been set up In: APA-OTS , Allianz press release for Austria, January 17, 2020, accessed on January 22, 2020.
  33. ↑ Strache Party DAÖ began recruiting other Vienna District Council of the Freedom Party. In: Kurier.at. March 13, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  34. ↑ Fed up : Strache fans also split off in Liesing. In: Kurier.at. March 16, 2020, accessed April 5, 2020 .
  35. ^ Three FPÖ district councilors switched to DAÖ. In: wien.orf.at. April 24, 2020, accessed April 24, 2020 .
  36. ↑ a b Team Strache is growing again. In: wien.orf.at. May 20, 2020, accessed May 21, 2020 .
  37. ↑ Another FPÖ municipal council changes to Team Strache. In: wien.orf.at. July 22, 2020, accessed July 22, 2020 .
  38. ↑ Vienna election 2020: nominations were submitted. In: wien.gv.at. August 14, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
  39. ↑ Strache: “I behaved to be embarrassed” , ORF Vienna, accessed on August 5, 2020.
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