Negotiators of a center-right five-party coalition in South Tyrol, consisting of the South Tyrolean People’s Party (SVP), South Tyrolean Freedom Party, Fratelli d’Italia, Lega and La Civica, reached a fundamental agreement on all issues and content on Thursday. evening. In the coming days, discussions will take place on the size of the state government, its responsibilities and the division of departments.
Only after these talks will the coalition negotiations be finally concluded, SVP State Secretary Martin Pircher emphasized after a marathon negotiating session at the so-called ‘coalition table’, where the leaders of the future coalition members met. The individual parties would then go to the committees that still have to approve the pact. For the SVP, for example, this would be the party committee next Monday.
The negotiations lasted about a month
The negotiations lasted about a month and had become somewhat tedious lately. The original plan was to have it completed before Christmas, but apparently some serious negotiating blocks still needed to be cleared.
In any case, the state parliament must be convened on time. The election of Governor Arno Kompatscher (SVP) in the state parliament is scheduled for January 16.
Headwinds from civil society
The desired alliance had recently caused the ‘collective party’ some opposition from civil society. 224 scientists from the autonomous province took to the barricades with an “open letter” against the coalition with the right-wing parties. About 200 artists also spoke out against Fratelli d’Italia, the party of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, which participated in the government. However, the majority of the SVP party base seemed to support the course of Kompatscher and chairman Philipp Achammer.
Kompatscher tried to take the wind out of the sails or calm down the critics. He emphasized, among other things, that it is up to the SVP to ‘guarantee that a coalition has a clear center orientation’. After all, they are the party that ‘represents the center and whose policy is clearly central’.
At the beginning of December, the majority of the SVP committees spoke out in favor of the center-right variant and against a left-of-center variant. If negotiations are concluded positively, the new alliance will have 19 of the 35 seats in the South Tyrolean state parliament, giving it a clear majority.
Source: Krone
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