Team Stronach

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Team Stronach
Leader Frank Stronach
Founded 27 September 2012
Headquarters Magna Straße 1
2522 Oberwaltersdorf
Lower Austria
Ideology Euroscepticism[1][2]
Economic liberalism[1][3]
Populism[4][5][6]
Colours Red and white (national colours)
National Council
11 / 183
Federal Council
1 / 62
European Parliament
0 / 19
Website
www.teamstronach.at
Politics of Austria
Political parties
Elections

Team Stronach, full name Team Stronach for Austria (German: Team Stronach für Österreich), is a political party in Austria founded by and named after Austrian-Canadian businessman Frank Stronach. The new party was registered on 25 September 2012,[7] and was launched two days later.

In a Gallup poll in August 2012, it received 8% of the vote.[8] Five MPs – Gerhard Köfer of the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ), Elisabeth Kaufmann-Bruckberger and Christoph Hagen of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ), and independents Robert Lugar and Erich Tadler – have agreed to join the party.[9][10]

Parties with at least three seats are automatically qualified to run in the forthcoming federal election.[11]

The party name, programme, and logo were decided in early September 2012.[12] Köfer has been named as the party's leading candidate for the 2013 state election in Carinthia.[13] In September's Gallup poll, it received 10% of the vote.[14][12]

At the party's campaign launch for the next federal election, the party unveiled a political advertisement featuring personal endorsements for Stronach from Bill Clinton and Larry King.[15][16] By this time, the party polled between 10% and 12%.[15] After the defection of a fifth MP, Stefan Markowitz, Team Stronach was given official party status in the National Council: giving the party €1.4m of state funding and places on parliamentary committees.[17][18]

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 Gerald Zelina.

On September 29, 2013 Team Stronach participitated for the first time in the elections for the Austrian National Parlament. According to preliminary results Team Stronach got 5,8 % of the votes won 11 seats and will be the fifth largest party in the new Austrian parliament. [19]

Ideology

Team Stronach supports Austria leaving the Euro currency and returning to the schilling.[20] Although an advisor of Team Stronach suggested later on in an interview with the Austrian economic news magazine "Format" they want to keep the Euro but additionally introduce national currencies. [21]

Unlike some other anti-euro parties, Stronach is not anti-immigration.[22]

The party advocates cutting bureaucracy and instituting a 25% flat-rate income tax.

Team Stronach supports ending conscription and introducing an all-volunteer army.[3]

Stronach supports democratic reform, including the use of primary elections.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Parties and Elections in Europe: The database about parliamentary elections and political parties in Europe, by Wolfram Nordsieck
  2. ↑ (German) Haller, Patricia (8 September 2012), "Stronach für fast jeden Dritten wählbar", Kurier 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 (German) "30 Seiten "Grundsatzprogramm"", Der Standard, 27 September 2012 
  4. ↑ Dargent, Ralf (3 October 2012), ""Maischberger": Neben Österreichs Populisten ist Sarrazin ein Bube", Die Welt 
  5. ↑ Hoffmann-Ostenhof, Georg (29 September 2012), "Stronach die Daumen drücken!", Profil online 
  6. ↑ Tagwerker, Lukas (28 September 2012), Der Großkapitalist als Guru, ORF FM 
  7. ↑ (German) ""Team Stronach für Österreich" als Partei angemeldet". Der Standard. 25 September 2012. 
  8. ↑ "Austrian magnate's new party wants to dump euro". The Irish Times. 23 August 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012. 
  9. ↑ (German) "Stronach-Partei: Gerüchte um vierten Mandatar "falsch"". Die Presse. 26 August 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012. 
  10. ↑ (German) "Zerfallserscheinungen beim BZÖ". Kurier. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012. 
  11. ↑ (German) "Antritt gesichert: Stronach holt dritten Mandatar an Bord". Die Presse. 23 August 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012. 
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 (German) "Stronach-Partei: Logo, Name & Personal fix". oe24.at. 14 September 2012. Retrieved 16 September 2012. 
  13. ↑ (German) "Stronach-Partei tritt in Kärnten an, Köfer wird Spitzenkandidat". Der Standard. 28 August 2012. Retrieved 12 May 2012. 
  14. ↑ (German) "SPÖ liegt in Umfragen klar vorne". Die Presse. 17 September 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012. 
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Billionaire launches eurosceptic party". News.com.au. 28 September 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2012. 
  16. ↑ Tirone, Jonathan (27 September 2012). "Stronach Leaves Thoroughbreds to Join Austrian Vote Race". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 26 August 2012. 
  17. ↑ (German) "Team Stronach anerkannt: Jetzt sechs Klubs im Parlament". Die Presse. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012. 
  18. ↑ "Eurosceptic tycoon secures place in Austrian parliament". Reuters. 8 November 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012. 
  19. ↑ (German) Wahlkartenauszaehlung ORF. Temporary results of the Austrian elections, 30 September, 2013
  20. ↑ Prodhan, Georgina (27 September 2012). "Eurosceptic billionaire starts Austrian election campaign". Reuters. Retrieved 26 August 2012. 
  21. ↑ Schuch, Astrid (15 February 2013). "Stronach-Chefberater Hankel: "Wir behalten den Euro und führen nationale Währungen ein"". Format. Retrieved 21 February 2013. 
  22. ↑ Shotter, James. "Stronach sets up Austrian political party". 

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