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This is a list of political parties in South Tyrol , including both active parties and historical regional parties.
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This is a list of political parties in South Tyrol , including both active parties and historical regional parties.
South Tyrol is an autonomous province in northern Italy. An English translation of the official German and Italian names could be the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, reflecting the multilingualism and different naming conventions in the area. Together with Trentino, South Tyrol forms the autonomous region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol. The province is the northernmost of Italy, the second largest with an area of 7,400 square kilometres (2,857 sq mi), and has a total population of about 534,000 inhabitants as of 2021. Its capital and largest city is Bolzano.
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol is an autonomous region of Italy, located in the northern part of the country. The region has a population of 1.1 million, of whom 62% speak Italian as their mother tongue, 30% speak South Tyrolean German and several foreign languages are spoken by immigrant communities. Since the 1970s, most legislative and administrative powers have been transferred to the two self-governing provinces that make up the region: the province of Trento, commonly known as Trentino, and the province of Bolzano, commonly known as South Tyrol. In South Tyrol, German remains the sizeable majority language.
The South Tyrolean People's Party is a regionalist and mostly Christian-democratic political party in South Tyrol, an autonomous province with a German-speaking majority in northern Italy. Dieter Steger has been party leader since 2024, while party member Arno Kompatscher has been governor of South Tyrol since 2014.
The Citizens' Union for South Tyrol, formerly Union for South Tyrol, was a national-conservative and, at times, right-wing populist political party active in South Tyrol, Italy.
The South Tyrol Option Agreement was an agreement in effect between 1939 and 1943, when the native German and Ladin-speaking people in South Tyrol and several other municipalities of northern Italy, which had belonged to Austria before WWI, were given the option of either emigrating to neighboring Nazi Germany or remaining in Fascist Italy, where the German minority was subjected to repressive Italianization efforts.
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Die Freiheitlichen, abbreviated dF) is a regionalist, separatist, and right-wing populist political party in South Tyrol. The party, which is part of the South Tyrolean independence movement, seeks to represent the German-speaking majority and Ladin-speaking minority in the province and to separate it from Italy.
Ladins Dolomites was a minor political party representing the Ladin-speaking minority in South Tyrol.
Lega Alto Adige Südtirol, whose official name is Lega Alto Adige Südtirol per Salvini Premier, is a regionalist political party active in South Tyrol. The party was a "national" section of Lega Nord (LN) from 1991 to 2000 and has been the regional section of Lega per Salvini Premier (LSP) in South Tyrol since 2020.
The Politics of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democracy, whereby the President of Regional Government is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government and Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council. However, since a constitutional reform in 1972, almost all the executive and legislative powers are devolved to the two provinces of which the region is composed: Trentino and the South Tyrol.
The Freedom Party of South Tyrol was a regionalist national-liberal political party in South Tyrol.
The South Tyrolean Homeland Federation is a political organisation active in South Tyrol.
The Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections of 2008 took place on 26 October 2008 in South Tyrol and on 9 November in the Trentino. It was the first time since 1946 that elections were not held on the same day.
Oskar Peterlini is an Italian political writer and Lecturer at the Free University of Bozen Bolzano.
The Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections of 2013 took place on 27 October 2013.
We South Tyroleans is a political party in South Tyrol, seeking to represent German speakers.
The 2022 Italian general election took place on 25 September 2022. In Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, 14 seats were up for election: 8 for the Chamber of Deputies and 6 for the Senate of the Republic.
The 2023 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections took place on 22 October 2023. It determined two seats for Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol out of 21 in the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces.