Team K | |
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| Leader | Paul Köllensperger |
| Founded | 10 July 2018 |
| Split from | Five Star Movement |
| Ideology | Regionalism Liberalism Social liberalism |
| Political position | Centre[1][2] tocentre-left[3] |
| National affiliation | More Europe |
| European affiliation | ALDE Party |
| Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 400 (0%) |
| Senate | 0 / 205 (0%) |
| European Parliament | 0 / 76 (0%) |
| Provincial Council | 4 / 35 |
| Website | |
| team-k.eu | |
Team K (TK), namedTeam Köllensperger from its establishment in July 2018 to November 2019, is a political party active inSouth Tyrol, where it seeks to be an inter-ethniccentrist party.[4] Led byPaul Köllensperger, it is politicallyregionalist,[5]liberal,[6][7][8] andsocial-liberal.[5][9][10]
The party, which is close toNEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS), a like-minded liberal party, is an observer member of theAlliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE) and formed a pact withMore Europe (+Eu) for the2019 European Parliament election in Italy. In addition to social-liberal andenvironmentalist policies, TK advocates apro-European stance,[11] and is supportive ofdirect democracy.[5]
The party was established on the 10 July 2018 by Paul Köllensperger, a member of theLandtag of South Tyrol.[12] Köllensperger was elected in the Landtag after the2013 provincial election within theFive Star Movement (M5S).[13] In July 2018, he left the party accusing its leadership of not being interested in promoting enough South Tyrol's local interests and that it was necessary to establish a new party aimed at representing all the South Tyroleans looking for an inter-ethniccentrist party and aiming at breaking the absolute majority of theSouth Tyrolean People's Party (SVP).[14] In the2018 provincial election the party obtained a successful 15.2% of the vote, arriving second after the SVP.[15]
In the run-up to the2019 European Parliament election in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, TK, which affirmed to be taking inspiration from Austria's NEOS party,[11] joined the ALDE party.[16][17][18][19][20] Consequently, it formed a pact with +Eu, ALDE's member party in Italy, and proposedRenate Holzeisen as its candidate.[21][22][11] 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; she did not succeed in being elected as the list did not pass the 4% country-level electoral threshold.[23] Holzeisen later left the party and joined and joinedVita, focusing on opposingCOVID-19 vaccines.[24]
In the2023 provincial election, the party obtained 11.1% of the vote, while Holzeisen-led Vita won 2.6%.
In the2024 European Parliament election, the party ran withinAction, with Köllensperger as its candidate,[25] and obtained 6.8% of the vote.
| Landtag of South Tyrol | |||||
| Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Leader |
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| 2018 | 43,315 (2nd) | 15.2 | 6 / 35 | – | Paul Köllensperger |
| 2023 | 31,201 (2nd) | 11.1 | 4 / 35 |  2 | |
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | EP Group |
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| 2019 | Paul Köllensperger | IntoMore Europe | 0 / 76 | New | – | |
| 2024 | IntoAction | 0 / 76 |  0 | |||
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