Carinthian state election, 2013

  • SPÖ: 14
  • GREEN: 5
  • ÖVP: 5
  • FPK: 6
  • FRANK: 4
  • AAF: 2

The state election in Carinthia in 2013 took place as early election on March 3, 2013. On the same day the state election was held in Lower Austria in 2013. The early election was necessary after the Carinthian parliament after numerous corruption scandals broke up unanimously. The voter turnout was 75.15 % to 6.63 percentage points lower than in 2009.

After counting the final votes on the following Monday a single vote was decisive that a mandate over previously determined is moved from the AAF to the Greens.

Starting position

In the state elections in Carinthia, 2009, the Alliance for the Future was Austria ( AAF ) agree strongest party, the Party for the first time after the split from the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ ) took. Governor Gerhard Dörfler was. The 2004 strongest party FPÖ could no longer move in the state legislature.

As of December 2009 the Carinthian national association of the AAF is made ​​under the name of The Freedom independently in Carinthia ( FPK ) and later collaborated at the federal level with the FPÖ. The national association of AAF in Carinthia was re-established on 10 January 2010.

In January 2010, was first reported on the later so-called part-of -the -game affair. It turned the then Deputy Governor of Carinthia Scheuch a Russian investor Austrian citizenship in view, in exchange for investments in Carinthia and party donations to the former AAF. Streamer was convicted in the summer of 2011 in the first instance to six months unconditional imprisonment, which was, however, repealed in the second instance. The following year, streamer was again found guilty in the first instance, the verdict was a fine and a conditional sentence from much milder. On December 19, 2012, his conviction was confirmed. Tickler received a fine of 67,500 euros and was sentenced to seven months conditional imprisonment. In the summer of 2012 tickler had resigned from all political functions. As Deputy Governor and Provincial his brother Kurt tickler followed him.

Another case of corruption in Carinthia by the confession of a tax consultant Dietrich Birnbacher and the former Carinthian ÖVP chief Josef Martinz became public in July 2012. She testified that on Birnbacher fee, which was based on the Hypo Alpe Adria, the ÖVP party financing and the FPK (then AAF ) was operated. Because of this message Martinz stepped back and SPÖ, ÖVP and the Greens agreed to a motion for new elections in Carinthia's parliament. This could be blocked in twelve special sessions of the Parliament of the FPK, since this party could make the body due to their number of seats a quorum. Only in mid- December 2012 we were in agreement on state elections on March 3, 2013. Following the judgment, the corruption Prosecutor's Office initiated an investigation against Scheuch and Harald Dobernig (both FPK ).

At the same time put a number of other scandals the FPK under pressure. Against a number of persons from the vicinity of FPK and AAF under investigation, since election advertising leaflets were allegedly financed from state funds. An advertising agency owned by the FPK is suspected to have provided calculations for sham contracts to companies that received contracts in the country. The state government has been criticized for failed prestige projects like the stadium in Klagenfurt or the Wörtherseebühne whose operation caused high costs. The former Hypo -Alpe -Adria - manager Wolfgang Gerhard Kulterer and Xander were sentenced to prison terms after they issued at the direction of Jörg Haider the already problematic at the time, airline Styrian Spirit an unsecured loan.

The economic situation of the state had become unfavorable since the reign of the FPÖ, the unemployment rate was in January 2013 at 12.7 %, Carinthia also has the highest per capita debt of all states. The resident population of the state decreases for several years, which is attributed to the migration of skilled workers.

Lists

The top ten lists were proposed:

  • FPK: The Freedom Party in Carinthia - FPK list Gerhard Dörfler
  • SPÖ: Social Democratic Party of Austria - Peter Kaiser
  • ÖVP: Gabriel Obernosterer Dr. Wolfgang Waldner ÖVP Kärnten
  • GREEN: The Greens - The Green Alternative Carinthia - Rolf Holub
  • TS: Team Stronach for Carinthia
  • AAF: AAF - list Josef Bucher
  • PIRATE: Pirate Party of Austria
  • ASOK: Alliance Social Carinthia / ALIANSA Socialna Koroško
  • STARK: List Stark ( not in constituency 4)
  • LPÖ: Livable Party of Austria

The originally planned candidacy of the party Liberal Forum did not materialize.

Surveys

Since the announcement of the party funding scandal surrounding Dietrich Birnbacher surveys were carried out increasingly. These were partly very different results. Compared to the polls, the preliminary final results for the ÖVP in the lower part, the Greens and the team Stronach were slightly in the upper range of the predicted frame. The AAF passed as expected, the threshold for entry into the state legislature by a percentage point. With significant deviations, the SPÖ was about 5-6 percentage points above the forecasts of most institutions, the FPK 6-10 percentage points below the projections.

Official final result

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Due to the massive losses of the FPK whose managing party chairman Kurt tickler resigned on March 4, 2013. After the election, the SPÖ and the Greens put in the state parliament and the provincial government for the first time in the history of Carinthia, a majority agreed on a cooperation. This was followed by talks with the ÖVP over a three coalition that would have a two-thirds majority to change the state constitution can. The AAF lost by counting the absentee ballots due to a single voice on a mandate to the Greens, so she applied for a recount in the state election authority, which was refused. A contested elections to the Constitutional Court was announced.

The election results led to a power struggle in the FPÖ. The federal FPÖ demanded from the FPK deputies villagers Dobernig and Anton waiving their parliamentary mandates what the three deputies rejected first. After a few days of internal negotiations villagers was moved to the Federal mandate of the FPK to give up his parliamentary mandate. Dobernig renounced his mandate and got from the FPÖ an " Advisory Agreement", Anton remained in parliament and was included in the FPK club. Thus the FPK did not have to renounce the state club promotion, the previously publicly debated Party split took place.

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