Social Progressive Party of South Tyrol
The Social Progress Party in South Tyrol (SFP ) was a political party with social democratic orientation, which was founded in 1966 by the Bolzano doctor Egmont Jenny. She was represented by 1966-1968 and from 1973-1978 in the South Tyrolean Landtag.
History
The establishment of the Social Progressive Party (SFP ) is due to the efforts of the Austrian Foreign Minister and later Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, to support part of its commitment to solving the South Tyrol question the formation of a social democratic component within the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP ) is active. Kreisky in 1964 allowed the nomination of Bolzano doctor Egmont Jenny's SVP parliamentary candidates. After his election to the Landtag Jenny was with the founding of the " South Tyrolean Working Group for Social Progress ," a social-democratic party component first structures. Citing the repeated violation of party discipline in state polls Jenny was excluded from the SVP in 1966 and founded with support from the Social Democratic Party in immediate connection the Social Progressive Party of South Tyrol (SFP ), whose representative he served until 1968 in the state parliament. In the local elections in 1969 the SFP reached a total of 24 council seats in 17 municipalities of South Tyrol.
On the occasion of the Italian parliamentary elections in 1972 renounced the SFP on an independent candidacy and recommended the election of the Trentino Socialists Renato Ballardini (PSI ), which used during the negotiations on the Second Statute of Autonomy as a member of the parliamentary Nine Ten Commission for the interests of German and Ladin-speaking South Tyrol had. The choice recommendation for an Italian candidate led to a split of the SFP and at the state elections 1973 Parallel founding of the Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol (SPS ) around the former SVP parliamentarian Hans Dietl. Due to the increase of the parliament seats from 25 to 34 seats, the SFP could achieve a radical mandate for Egmont Jenny despite loss of votes. After a failed merger with the PLC in 1976 did not make it the party to defend her seat for Jenny in the state elections in 1978. The last municipal councils SFP eliminated from their mandates from 1980.
The focal points
The Social Progress Party in South Tyrol pleaded in its action program from 1967 to the principles of democratic socialism and oriented generally to the political line of the Social Democratic Party under the leadership of Bruno Kreisky. The SFP took in the 1960s and 1970s to numerous socio-political issues in South Tyrol position with them and from the implementation of the Second Autonomy Statute especially for the expansion of educational structures, creating jobs, strengthening the opinion of pluralism, gender equality began for a total of social modernization and the South Tyrol's connection to Europe.
The SFP remained in the political landscape of South Tyrol always an ethnically united party, which relied mainly on sympathizers of the western half of the country and from urban, German-speaking milieu, although the party several times took on the initiative of Jenny's credible attempts to open up the Italian-speaking electorate and to cooperate with Italian parties of their political camp.
The successful collection of a first language inter-group movement succeeded Alexander Langer with the parliamentary list New Left / Nuova Sinistra, parallel to the decline of the SFP the catchment managed in the state legislature in 1978 and was later established as a green alternative list in the long term in the South Tyrolean political landscape.