| Leader: | Paul Köllensperger |
| Foundation: | 10 July 2018 |
| Split: | Five Star Movement |
| National: | More Europe |
| European: | ALDE Party |
| Seats1 Title: | Chamber of Deputies |
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| Seats2 Title: | Senate |
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| Seats3 Title: | European Parliament |
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| Seats4 Title: | Provincial Council |
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| Country: | Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol |
Team K (TK), named Team Köllensperger from its establishment in July 2018 to November 2019, is a political party active in South Tyrol, where it seeks to be an inter-ethnic centrist party.[1] Led by Paul Köllensperger, it is politically regionalist,[2] liberal,[3] [4] [5] and social-liberal.[2] [6] [7]
The party, which is close to NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS), a like-minded liberal party, is an observer member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE) and formed a pact with More Europe (+Eu) for the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy. In addition to social-liberal and environmentalist policies, TK advocates a pro-European stance,[8] and is supportive of direct democracy.
The party was established on the 10 July 2018 by Paul Köllensperger, a member of the Landtag of South Tyrol.[9] Köllensperger was elected in the Landtag after the 2013 provincial election within the Five Star Movement (M5S).[10] 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-ethnic centrist party and aiming at breaking the absolute majority of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP).[11] In the 2018 provincial election the party obtained a successful 15.2% of the vote, arriving second after the SVP.[12]
In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, TK, which affirmed to be taking inspiration from Austria's NEOS party, joined the ALDE party.[13] [14] [15] [16] [17] Consequently, it formed a pact with +Eu, ALDE's member party in Italy, and proposed Renate Holzeisen as its candidate.[18] [19] 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.[20] Holzeisen later left the party and joined and joined Vita, focusing on opposing COVID-19 vaccines.[21]
In the 2023 provincial election the party obtained 11.1% of the vote, while Holzeisen-led Vita won 2.6%.
In the 2024 European Parliament election the party ran within Action, with Köllensperger as its candidate,[22] and obtained 6.8% of the vote.
| Landtag of South Tyrol | |||||||||||
| width=13% | Election year | width=16% | Votes | width=6% | % | width=1% | Seats | width=8% | +/– | width=18% | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 43,315 (2nd) | 15.2 | |||||||||
| 2023 | 31,201 (2nd) | 11.1 | |||||||||
| Election | Leader | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | EP Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Paul Köllensperger | Into More Europe | New | – | ||
| 2024 | Into Action | 0 | ||||