Team Köllensperger


Team Köllensperger or Team K is a regionalist and liberal political party active in South Tyrol, where it seeks to be an interethnic centrist party. TK also advocates direct democracy, social liberalism and environmentalist policies.
The party, which is close to NEOS, a liberal party in Austria, is an observer member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and, more recently, has formed a pact with More Europe for the 2019 European Parliament election.

History

The party was established on the 10 July 2018 by Paul Köllensperger, a member of the Landtag of South Tyrol. Köllensperger was elected in the Landtag after the 2013 provincial election, within the Five Star Movement. However, in July 2018, he left the movement 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 in search of a interethnic centrist party and aimed at breaking the absolute majority of the South Tyrolean People's Party.
In the 2018 provincial election the party obtained a successful 15.2% of the vote, arriving second after the SVP.
In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election TK, which takes inspiration from Austria's NEOS, joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. Consequently, it formed a pact with More Europe, ALDE's member party in Italy, and proposed Renate Holzeisen as its candidate. Holzeisen was the fourth most-voted candidate in South Tyrol, gaining nearly 23,000 votes, but she did not succeede in being elected.

Election results

European Parliament

Provincial Council

Leadership