Team K (TK), named Team Köllensperger from its establishment in July 2018 to November 2019, is an Italian regionalist and

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political party active in

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, where it seeks to be an inter-ethnic

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party. Its leader is Paul Köllensperger. TK advocates

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and

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policies. The party, which is close to NEOS, a liberal party in

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, is an observer member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party and, more recently, has formed a pact with

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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 The Council of South Tyrol is the provincial council (german: Südtiroler Landtag; it, Consiglio della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano; lld, Cunsëi dla Provinzia autonoma de Bulsan) of the autonomous province of South Tyrol (Bolzano) in northe ...

. Köllensperger was elected in the Landtag after the 2013 provincial election, within the Five Star Movement (M5S). However, in July 2018, he left the party accusing its leadership of not being interested in promoting enough

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’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

party and aiming at breaking the absolute majority of the

South Tyrolean People's Party The South Tyrolean People's Party (german: Südtiroler Volkspartei, SVP) is a regionalist and autonomist political party in South Tyrol, an autonomous province with a German-speaking majority in northern Italy. Founded on 8 May 1945, the SVP h ...

(SVP). 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 affirmed to be taking inspiration from

's NEOS party, joined the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE Party). Consequently, it formed a pact with

(+E), ALDE's member party in Italy, and proposed

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as its candidate. 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, but she did not succeed in being elected as the list did not pass the 4% country-level electoral threshold. Holzeisen later left the party and focused on opposing

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Election results

Provincial Council

European Parliament

Leadership

*Leader: Paul Köllensperger (2018–present)

References

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