Team Stronach

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Team Stronach
LeaderFrank Stronach
FounderFrank Stronach
Founded27 September 2012
DissolvedAugust 2017
HeadquartersMagna Straße 1
2522 Oberwaltersdorf
Lower Austria
Ideology
Political positionCentre-right[10] to right-wing[11]
European affiliationAlliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe
ColoursRed and white (national colours)
National Council
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Federal Council
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European Parliament
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State Parliaments
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Website
www.teamstronach.at

The Team Stronach for Austria (German: Team Stronach für Österreich) was a Eurosceptic, right-wing populist political party in Austria founded by and named after Austrian-Canadian businessman Frank Stronach. It was dissolved in August 2017.

History[]

The new party was registered on 25 September 2012,[12] and was launched two days later.

In a Gallup poll in August 2012, it received 8% of the vote.[13] Five MPs – of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ), and of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), and independents and – agreed to join the party.[14][15]

Parties with at least three seats are automatically qualified to run in the forthcoming federal election.[16]

The party name, programme, and logo were decided in early September 2012.[17] Köfer has been named as the party's leading candidate for the 2013 state election in Carinthia.[18] In September's Gallup poll, it received 10% of the vote.[17][19]

At the party's campaign launch for the 2013 federal election, the party unveiled a political advertisement featuring personal endorsements for Stronach from Bill Clinton and Larry King.[20][21] By this time, the party polled between 10% and 12%.[20] After the defection of a fifth MP, , Team Stronach was given official party status in the National Council: giving the party €1.4m of state funding and places on parliamentary committees.[22][23]

The party won 11% of the vote in the March 2013 state election in Carinthia, only narrowly falling behind The Greens and the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). On the same day, Team Stronach won 10% of the vote in the Lower Austria state election, in third place. The result in Lower Austria gave Team Stronach its first seat in the Federal Council, held by .

On 29 September 2013 Team Stronach participated for the first time in the elections for the Austrian National Parliament. It got 5.73% of the votes and won 11 seats, being the fifth largest party in the new Austrian parliament.[24] The party did not contest the 2014 European parliamentary election.[25] Since the election the party has fallen considerably in the polls. On 3 June 2015, two Stronach members - Georg Vetter and - of parliament defected to the ÖVP, leaving the party with nine deputies.[26] In August 2017 the planned dissolution of the Team Stronach was announced for after the legislative election. Its MPs changed to the FPÖ, the FLÖ and the .

Ideology[]

The Team Stronach supported Austria leaving the Euro currency and introducing an Austrian Euro instead.[27] An advisor of the Team Stronach suggested later in an interview with news magazine "Format" that they wanted to keep the Euro but introduce additional national currencies.[28]

Unlike some other right-wing Eurosceptic parties, Stronach was not as opposed to immigration as others.[29] The party advocated cutting bureaucracy and instituting a 25% flat-rate income tax. The Team Stronach supported ending conscription and introducing an all-volunteer army instead.[30] Stronach supported electoral reform, including the use of primary elections.[30]

Footnotes[]

  1. ^ Desirée Schmuck; Jörg Matthes; Hajo Boomgaarden (2017). "Austria: Candidate-centred and Anti-immigrant Right-wing Populism". In Toril Aalberg; Frank Esser; Carsten Reinemann; Jesper Stromback, Claes De Vreese (eds.). Populist Political Communication in Europe. Routledge. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-317-22474-7.
  2. ^ Eric Micklin (2015). "The Austrian Parliament and EU Affairs: Gradually Living Up to its Legal Potential". In Claudia Hefftler; Christine Neuhold; Olivier Rosenberg; et al. (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of National Parliaments and the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 389. ISBN 978-1-137-28913-1.
  3. ^ José M. Magone (2017). The Statecraft of Consensus Democracies in a Turbulent World: A Comparative Study of Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Taylor & Francis. p. 115. ISBN 978-1-315-40785-2.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2017). "Austria". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  5. ^ Haller, Patricia (8 September 2012), "Stronach für fast jeden Dritten wählbar", Kurier (in German)
  6. ^ Mark Allinson (2014). Germany and Austria Since 1814. Routledge. p. 206. ISBN 978-1-4441-8652-9.
  7. ^ Stijn van Kessel (2015). Populist Parties in Europe: Agents of Discontent?. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 35. ISBN 978-1-137-41411-3.
  8. ^ Dargent, Ralf (3 October 2012), ""Maischberger": Neben Österreichs Populisten ist Sarrazin ein Bube", Die Welt
  9. ^ Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Georg (29 September 2012), "Stronach die Daumen drücken!", Profil online
  10. ^ Oliver Gruber (2014). Campaigning in Radical Right Heartland: The politicization of immigration and ethnic relations in Austrian general elections, 1971-2013. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 83. ISBN 978-3-643-90517-8.
  11. ^ "Frank Stronach". Forbes. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  12. ^ ""Team Stronach für Österreich" als Partei angemeldet". Der Standard (in German). 25 September 2012.
  13. ^ "Austrian magnate's new party wants to dump euro". The Irish Times. 23 August 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  14. ^ "Stronach-Partei: Gerüchte um vierten Mandatar "falsch"". Die Presse (in German). 26 August 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  15. ^ "Zerfallserscheinungen beim BZÖ". Kurier (in German). 12 October 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  16. ^ "Antritt gesichert: Stronach holt dritten Mandatar an Bord". Die Presse (in German). 23 August 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b "Stronach-Partei: Logo, Name & Personal fix". oe24.at (in German). 14 September 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2012.
  18. ^ "Stronach-Partei tritt in Kärnten an, Köfer wird Spitzenkandidat". Der Standard (in German). 28 August 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  19. ^ "SPÖ liegt in Umfragen klar vorne". Die Presse (in German). 17 September 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  20. ^ Jump up to: a b "Billionaire launches eurosceptic party". News.com.au. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  21. ^ Tirone, Jonathan (27 September 2012). "Stronach Leaves Thoroughbreds to Join Austrian Vote Race". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  22. ^ "Team Stronach anerkannt: Jetzt sechs Klubs im Parlament". Die Presse (in German). 8 November 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  23. ^ "Eurosceptic tycoon secures place in Austrian parliament". Reuters. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
  24. ^ Nationalratswahl 2013, Austrian Ministry of the Interior
  25. ^ Tom Lansford (7 April 2015). Political Handbook of the World 2015. SAGE Publications. p. 405. ISBN 978-1-4833-7155-9.
  26. ^ "Georg Vetter und Marcus Franz wechseln vom Team Stronach zur ÖVP - derStandard.at".
  27. ^ Prodhan, Georgina (27 September 2012). "Eurosceptic billionaire starts Austrian election campaign". Reuters. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
  28. ^ Schuch, Astrid (15 February 2013). "Stronach-Chefberater Hankel: "Wir behalten den Euro und führen nationale Währungen ein"". Format. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
  29. ^ Shotter, James. "Stronach sets up Austrian political party".
  30. ^ Jump up to: a b "30 Seiten "Grundsatzprogramm"", Der Standard (in German), 27 September 2012

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