Team K

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Team K
Leader Paul Köllensperger
Founded10 July 2018
Split from Five Star Movement
Ideology Regionalism
Liberalism
Social liberalism
Political position Centre [1] [2] to centre-left [3]
National affiliation More Europe
European affiliation ALDE Party
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate
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European Parliament
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Provincial Council
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Website
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Team K (TK), named Team Köllensperger from its establishment in July 2018 to November 2019, is a political party active in South Tyrol, where it seeks to be an inter-ethnic centrist party. [4] Led by Paul Köllensperger, it is politically regionalist, [5] liberal, [6] [7] [8] and social-liberal. [5] [9] [10]

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The party, which is close to NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS), a like-minded liberal party, is an observer member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE) and formed a pact with More Europe (+Eu) for the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy. In addition to social-liberal and environmentalist policies, TK advocates a pro-European stance, [11] and is supportive of direct democracy. [5]

History

The party was established on the 10 July 2018 by Paul Köllensperger, a member of the Landtag of South Tyrol. [12] Köllensperger was elected in the Landtag after the 2013 provincial election within the Five Star Movement (M5S). [13] In July 2018, he left the party accusing its leadership of not being interested in promoting enough South Tyrol's local interests and that it was necessary to establish a new party aimed at representing all the South Tyroleans looking for an inter-ethnic centrist party and aiming at breaking the absolute majority of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP). [14] In the 2018 provincial election the party obtained a successful 15.2% of the vote, arriving second after the SVP. [15]

In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, TK, which affirmed to be taking inspiration from Austria's NEOS party, [11] joined the ALDE party. [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] Consequently, it formed a pact with +Eu, ALDE's member party in Italy, and proposed Renate Holzeisen as its candidate. [21] [22] [11] The list came third with 11.2% of the vote in South Tyrol and Holzeisen was the second most-voted candidate in the province, gaining nearly 23,000 votes; she did not succeed in being elected as the list did not pass the 4% country-level electoral threshold. [23] Holzeisen later left the party and joined and joined Vita, focusing on opposing COVID-19 vaccines. [24]

In the 2023 provincial election, the party obtained 11.1% of the vote, while Holzeisen-led Vita won 2.6%.

In the 2024 European Parliament election, the party ran within Action, with Köllensperger as its candidate, [25] and obtained 6.8% of the vote.

Election results

Provincial Council

Landtag of South Tyrol
Election yearVotes%Seats+/–Leader
2018 43,315 (2nd)15.2
6 / 35
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Paul Köllensperger
2023 31,201 (2nd)11.1
4 / 35
Decrease2.svg 2

European Parliament

ElectionLeaderVotes %Seats+/–EP Group
2019 Paul KöllenspergerInto More Europe
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New–
2024 Into Action
0 / 76
Steady2.svg 0

Leadership

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