Team Carinthia

Team Carinthia
Party leader	Gerhard Köfer
vice-chairman	Siegfried Huber
founding	2016
Place of foundation	Velden am Wörther See
Headquarters	Lidmansykgasse 10, A-9020 Klagenfurt
Seats in state parliaments	3/36
Alignment	Economically liberal
colour	yellow
Website	team-kaernten.at

The Team Kärnten (formerly Team Stronach Carinthia ) is a political party in the Austrian state of Carinthia . It emerged from the Carinthian regional organization of the now defunct Stronach team . In the regional elections in Carinthia in 2018 which reached Team Carinthia with 5.80% of votes and three mandates a place in the Carinthian state parliament .

history

In the state elections in Carinthia in 2013 , the party achieved 11.18% of the votes cast and entered the Carinthian state parliament with four seats . The Stronach Carinthia team, together with the Stronach Niederösterreich team , which also received 9.84% of the votes cast in the 2013 state election in Lower Austria on March 20, 2013 , was not just one of the first two regional organizations of the Stronach team to participate in elections but also one of the two first regional organizations of the party to be elected to an Austrian state parliament.

After Frank Stronach had deposed Gerhard Köfer as Carinthian state party chairman as well as the entire state party executive on October 2, 2013 and appointed the state parliament member Siegfried Schalli as the new state party chairman, tensions arose within the party. The conflict about Frank Stronach's influence on the national organization, which was fought between Köfer, Schalli and their respective supporters, was finally resolved after several crisis meetings. On October 14, 2013 Andrea Krainer was elected interim state party leader.

At the end of October 2013, Schalli surprisingly left the party and switched to the FPÖ . The Stronach Carinthia team thus lost its club status in the state parliament and was only an interest group. Martin Rutter was expelled from the party by party chairman Gerhard Köfer at the end of September 2017. When Isabella Theuermann moved to the FPÖ in December 2017, only Hartmut Prasch remained in the state parliament and the list lost its status as an interest group.

In December 2013, Gerhard Klocker was elected as the new interim state party chairman. In April 2014, Klocker finally became state party chairman.

Since October 2016, after the repayment of a loan to Frank Stronach, the party appeared under the name “Free Team Carinthia - List Gerhard Köfer”. For legal reasons, the party continued to use the name Stronach until the end of the legislative period. In November there was an amendment to the statutes, which dissolved the party from the Stronach team. State party chairman of the now independent party was Gerhard Köfer.

For the state elections in 2018, the party entered as Team Carinthia and was able to move into the state parliament again with three members.

Web links

• Team Carinthia
• ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: kaernten.teamstronach.at )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Final result of the state elections in Carinthia 2013 ( memento of the original from October 15, 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. 
2. ^ Final result of the state elections in Lower Austria in 2013
3. ^ Team Stronach Carinthia: Siegfried Schalli new state party chairman , October 2, 2013
4. ↑ "Outrageous": Carinthians defend themselves against Stronach , October 3, 2013, Die Presse online
5. ↑ New chairwoman should save Team Stronach , October 15, 2013, Kleine Zeitung
6. ^ Stronach / Köfer / Schalli: Andrea Krainer new interim state party leader in Carinthia , October 14, 2013
7. ^ Team Stronach is allowed to stay in the state parliament , November 21, 2013, ORF.at Carinthia
8. ↑ Martin Rutter excluded from Team Carinthia. In: ORF . September 28, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Change of party shows effects in the state parliament. In: ORF . December 14, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2017 . 
10. ^ Team Stronach: Gerhard Klocker new interim state chairman in Carinthia , December 21, 2013
11. ^ Gerhard Klocker new TS chairman , April 12, 2014, ORF.at Carinthia
12. ↑ Köfer / Klocker: The "Free Team Carinthia" is now officially free! , October 1, 2016
13. ^ Team Carinthia: Köfer back at the top , November 26, 2016, ORF.at Carinthia