South Tyrolese People s Party

The South Tyrolese People's Party (German: Südtiroler Volkspartei) is a political party in the South Tyrol region of Italy. It campaigns on a program of increased rights for German and Ladin-speakers in the South Tyrol region, which was annexed by Italy after the First World War, to some success - the province now has wide autonomy.

From 1957 to 1991, Silvius Magnago was chairman of the party.

It the 2004 European Parliamentary Election the SVP formed an electoral grouping with the Olive Tree coalition, on the understanding that an SVP candidate would be included in the list elected if they could achieve more than 50,000 votes. In practice Michl Ebner gained 93,169 votes and was included in the list of MEPs.

External link

Offical web site (in German) (http://www.svpartei.org/)

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