South Tyrol is an autonomous province in northern Italy, one of the two that make up 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 533,715 inhabitants as at 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 German dialects 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.
The South Tyrolean People's Party is a regionalist and autonomist political party in South Tyrol, an autonomous province with a German-speaking majority in northern Italy.
Alexander Langer was an Italian journalist, peace activist, politician, translator, and teacher.
Die Freiheitlichen, abbreviated dF, is a regionalist and right-wing separatist political party in South Tyrol, Italy. The party seeks to represent the German-speaking majority and Ladin-speaking minority in the province and to separate it from Italy. Broadly speaking, its ideology is similar to that of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and the two parties maintain close contacts. The long-time leader and honorary president of the party is Pius Leitner. In the 2013 provincial election the party came a distant second to the dominant South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP).
The Greens are a regionalist, green political party active in South Tyrol, northern Italy. Once the provincial section of the Federation of the Greens, the party is now autonomous and often forms different alliances at the country-level, but both joined Green Europe, a coalition of green parties for the 2019 European Parliament election.
Lega Nord Alto Adige – Südtirol is a regionalist political party, the "national" section of Lega Nord in South Tyrol, Italy.
The Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol was a regionalist social-democratic and Christian-social party of German speakers in South Tyrol, Italy, that was active from 1972 to 1983.
South Tyrolean Freedom is a national-conservative political party active in South Tyrol, where it seeks to represent the German-speaking population.
The Politics of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy 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.
This page gathers the results of elections in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.
The Party of Independents was a regionalist political party active in South Tyrol from 1972 to 1988.
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.
The Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol regional election of 1998 took place on 22 November 1998.
The Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol regional election of 1993 took place on 21 November 1993.
Oskar Peterlini, Lecturer at the Free University of Bozen Bolzano, is a Representative of the German-speaking South Tyrolean Minority in South Tyrol, Italy. He was a member of the Italian Senate in the Italian Parliament from 2001 to 2013, Member of the Regional Parliament of Trentino South Tyrol from 1978 to 1998 and its president from 1988–1998. He was also President of the district of the South Tyrolean Unterland of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) from 2001 to 2010.
The Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections of 2013 took place on 27 October 2013.
Alto Adige in the Heart is a national-conservative political party active in South Tyrol, Italy. The party is led by Alessandro Urzì and seeks to represent the Italian-speaking minority in the province, whose official Italian name is indeed Alto Adige.
Team K (TK), named Team Köllensperger from its establishment in July 2018 to November 2019, is a regionalist and liberal political party active in South Tyrol, where it seeks to be an inter-ethnic centrist party. TK also advocates direct democracy, social liberalism and environmentalist policies. Its leader is Paul Köllensperger.
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