Volt Austria
Volt Austria Volt Österreich | |
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| President | Jessica Sommer Ricardo Winter |
| Founded | 12 October 2018 |
| Headquarters | Vienna |
| Ideology | Social liberalism, Pro-Europeanism,
European federalism |
| European affiliation | Volt Europa |
| Colors | Purple |
| Website | |
| https://www.voltoesterreich.org | |
Volt Austria (short name: Volt; German: Volt Österreich) is a socialliberal political party in Austria and the Austrian chapter of Volt Europa a progressive and Eurofederalist pan-European political party and movement.
Policies
Volt advocates a common European approach to challenges such as the climate crisis, migration, digitalisation and security. In its programme, the party advocates strengthening the EU and the
European policy
Volt is in favour of introducing additional EU-wide transnational lists for elections to the European Parliament,[3] strengthening the European Parliament and replacing the unanimity principle in the European Council with a majority vote to prevent blockades.[4][2]
Transport policy
The party wants to promote and expand
Foreign and security policy
To strengthen security, Volt wants to establish an EU army and is striving for a common European foreign policy.[2][1]
History
Volt Austria has been registered as a party since October 12, 2018 with the aim of contesting the European elections 2019, but did not manage to collect the necessary 2600 declarations of support for a candidacy. According to the lead candidate Benjamin Wolf, the members then supported the election campaigns of the other Volt parties.[2] Since then, the party has contested regional and local elections in Austria. In the 2024 European elections, the party is running with author and European activist Nini Tsiklauri and lawyer Alexander Harrer as its top duo.[6]
Elections
European elections 2024
In October 2023, Volt announced its lead candidate, the author and European activist Nini Tsiklauri.[7] Together with the lawyer Alexander Harrer, she forms the leadcandidate duo for the 2024 European elections. The joint election programme of the Volt parties was adopted at the Volt Europa General Assembly in Paris in November 2023.[8]
In the run-up to the election, the party criticised the fact that the federal government did not provide
Structure
Volt's unique characteristic is its transnational approach of actively campaigning for the same goals as a single party throughout Europe. As European law does not permit this in this form, the party has to take a diversion by founding national parties in each EU member state.[2]
The party is organized in local and regional teams and active in
Most members of the party were never active in a party before joining Volt.[11]
External links
References
- ^ a b "Partei VOLT brachte Elefant vor das Parlament". www.puls24.at (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ a b c d e "Volt sorgt in Österreich nicht für genug Spannung". DER STANDARD (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2022-02-17.
- ^ andreas.puschautz (2020-10-08). "Runde der Kleinparteien zur Wien-Wahl: Kuschelnde Mäuschen". kurier.at (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "EU-Wahl 2019: Volt mit Benjamin Wolf". Meine Abgeordneten (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ katharina.zach (2020-10-06). "Europapartei Volt will für Wien eine City-Maut wie in Kopenhagen". kurier.at (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "EU-Wahl: Ex-Neos-Kandidatin geht für Liste Volt ins Rennen". Die Presse (in German). 2023-11-09. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "Instagram". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "Volt Europa Unveils Bold Vision for Europe and Elects New Leadership". Volt Europa. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "NÖ/St. Pölten: 100.000 niederösterreiche Europawahl-Stimmen für die Katz 🐈⬛". MeinBezirk.at (in German). 2024-03-09. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
- ^ "Startseite". Volt Österreich (in Austrian German). Retrieved 2022-02-17.
- ^ andreas.puschautz (2019-04-11). "EU-Wahl: Europas erste Partei will auch in Österreich antreten". kurier.at (in German). Retrieved 2024-03-28.
