Team Autonomies
Team Autonomies (Team Autonomie, Team A) was a liberal political party in South Tyrol, Italy.
The party's leader is Elena Artioli, a former member of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) and provincial leader of Lega Nord Alto Adige – Südtirol (LNST) during 2013–2014. Once a sister party of LNST, Team A became an associate party of the Democratic Party (PD) in 2014.
History
In the run-up of the 2008 provincial election LNST was joined by Elena Artioli, who had left the SVP after the party chose to restrict its membership to German- and Ladin-speakers. In the election LNST won the 2.1% of the vote and Artioli was elected to the Provincial Council.{{cite web| url=https://civis.bz.it/vote/landtag2008/home_li_vg.htm |title=Elezioni Amministrative 2008 - Provincia di Bolzano}}
In January 2013 Artioli, who had become the party's rising star and the darling of Lega Nord's federal leadership, was elected national secretary of LNST{{cite web |url=http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/01/26/news/elena-artioli-eletta-segretario-provinciale-della-lega-nord-1.6417875 |title=Elena Artioli eletta segretario provinciale della Lega Nord - Cronaca - Alto Adige |website=altoadige.gelocal.it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128080832/http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/01/26/news/elena-artioli-eletta-segretario-provinciale-della-lega-nord-1.6417875 |archive-date=2013-01-28}} and in May she announced that the party would run in the 2013 provincial election as part of the Team Autonomies/Team Artioli (Team A), a larger autonomist and inter-ethnic electoral list inspired to the Austrian party Team Stronach.{{cite web |url=http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/05/11/news/provinciali-nasce-il-team-artioli-1.7044981 |title=Provinciali, nasce il "Team Artioli" - Cronaca - Alto Adige |website=altoadige.gelocal.it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111145627/http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/05/11/news/provinciali-nasce-il-team-artioli-1.7044981 |archive-date=2013-11-11}} Later, in September, Team A was integrated into the "Forza Alto Adige–Lega Nord–Team Autonomies" list, along with The People of Freedom.{{Cite web |url=http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/09/13/news/patto-con-la-biancofiore-la-artioli-si-candida-con-forza-italia-1.7736722 |title=Patto con la Biancofiore: la Artioli si candida capolista con Forza Italia - Cronaca - Alto Adige |access-date=2014-11-18 |archive-date=2013-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131111145737/http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/09/13/news/patto-con-la-biancofiore-la-artioli-si-candida-con-forza-italia-1.7736722 |url-status=dead }}[http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2013/09/14/news/biancofiore-candida-l-artioli-capolista-1.7745673 Biancofiore candida l’Artioli capolista - Cronaca - Alto Adige] In the election the list took 2.5% of the vote[http://elezioni.provincia.bz.it/ Referendum provinciale confermativo 2014 | Provincia autonoma di Bolzano – Alto Adige] and Artioli was the only candidate elected.{{cite web |url=http://elezioni.provincia.bz.it/prefvt_li_p7786_vg.htm |title=Elezioni provinciali 2013 – Provincia autonoma di Bolzano |accessdate=2014-11-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030145907/http://elezioni.provincia.bz.it/prefvt_li_p7786_vg.htm |archivedate=2013-10-30 }}
In January 2014, at the very beginning of the Council term, Artioli voted in favour of Arno Kompatscher (SVP), the new provincial governor, in a vote of confidence{{Cite web |url=http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2014/01/10/news/e-bufera-sulla-artioli-lo-ha-fatto-per-un-posto-1.8445410 |title=È bufera sulla Artioli "Lo ha fatto per un posto" - Cronaca - Alto Adige |access-date=2014-11-18 |archive-date=2014-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407072620/http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2014/01/10/news/e-bufera-sulla-artioli-lo-ha-fatto-per-un-posto-1.8445410 |url-status=dead }} and, consequently, left Lega Nord.{{Cite web |url=http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2014/01/21/news/elena-artioli-lascia-la-lega-fugatti-torna-commissario-1.8514913 |title=Elena Artioli lascia la Lega Fugatti torna commissario – Cronaca – Alto Adige |access-date=2014-11-18 |archive-date=2014-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407070854/http://altoadige.gelocal.it/cronaca/2014/01/21/news/elena-artioli-lascia-la-lega-fugatti-torna-commissario-1.8514913 |url-status=dead }} A few months later Artioli, who had come to be a supporter of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, joined the PD and became the provincial coordinator of Liberal PD, the party's liberal faction led by Enzo Bianco.{{cite web |url=http://altoadige.gelocal.it/bolzano/cronaca/2014/07/05/news/elena-artioli-migra-al-pd-e-diventa-coordinatrice-liberal-oggi-l-ok-da-renzi-1.9544628 |title=Elena Artioli migra al Pd e diventa coordinatrice liberal: oggi l'ok da Renzi - Cronaca - Alto Adige |website=altoadige.gelocal.it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715034651/http://altoadige.gelocal.it/bolzano/cronaca/2014/07/05/news/elena-artioli-migra-al-pd-e-diventa-coordinatrice-liberal-oggi-l-ok-da-renzi-1.9544628 |archive-date=2014-07-15}}{{cite web |url=http://www.liberalpd.it/old/3780/elena-artioli-nominata-coordinatrice-provinciale-liberalpd/ |title=Elena Artioli nominata coordinatrice provinciale LIBERALPD {{!}} LiberalPD |website=www.liberalpd.it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129065221/http://www.liberalpd.it/old/3780/elena-artioli-nominata-coordinatrice-provinciale-liberalpd/ |archive-date=2014-11-29}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.salto.bz/it/article/06072014/le-sette-vite-di-elena-artioli|title = Le sette vite di Elena Artioli|date = 7 July 2014}}{{cite web |url=http://altoadige.gelocal.it/bolzano/cronaca/2014/07/18/news/liberal-pd-due-coordinatori-regionali-artioli-e-giupponi-1.9616920 |title=Liberal Pd, due coordinatori provinciali: Artioli e Giupponi - Cronaca - Alto Adige |website=altoadige.gelocal.it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129050934/http://altoadige.gelocal.it/bolzano/cronaca/2014/07/18/news/liberal-pd-due-coordinatori-regionali-artioli-e-giupponi-1.9616920 |archive-date=2014-11-29}}{{cite web |url=http://altoadige.gelocal.it/bolzano/cronaca/2014/08/27/news/liberal-pd-la-artioli-a-pranzo-con-enzo-bianco-e-durnwalder-1.9825410 |title=Liberal Pd, la Artioli a pranzo con Enzo Bianco e Durnwalder - Cronaca - Alto Adige |website=altoadige.gelocal.it |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129050940/http://altoadige.gelocal.it/bolzano/cronaca/2014/08/27/news/liberal-pd-la-artioli-a-pranzo-con-enzo-bianco-e-durnwalder-1.9825410 |archive-date=2014-11-29}} As a result, Team A became an associate party of the PD.
In 2018, Artioli finally left the politics.{{cite web|url=https://www.rainews.it/tgr/tagesschau/articoli/2018/09/tag-suedtirol-e327b54e-f9e3-47f4-a9a7-404080198296.html|title=Ciao, pfiat enk! SVP, Lega, Team Autonomie und nun?|website=Rai News|date=18 September 2018 }}
Leadership
- President: Elena Artioli (2013–2018)
References
External links
- [http://www.teamautonomie.org/ Official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141031020547/http://www.teamautonomie.org/ |date=2014-10-31 }}
{{Political parties of Italy}}
{{South Tyrolean political parties}}
Category:Political parties in South Tyrol