Negotiators from a coalition of five center-right parties in South Tyrol, made up of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), South Tyrolean Freedom Party, Fratelli d'Italia, Lega and La Civica, today reached a fundamental agreement on all issues and content. Senior Secretary of State Martin Pircher told APA this. In the coming days there will still be discussions about the size of the state government, the responsibilities and the distribution of departments.
Only then will the coalition negotiations be finally concluded, Pircher emphasized after a marathon of negotiations at the “coalition table”, where the leaders of the future coalition members gathered. Individual parties would then go to committees that still need to approve the pact. In the SVP, for example, this is the party committee on Monday.
Negotiations lasted about a month and have recently become somewhat protracted. In any case, the state parliament must be convened on time. The election of Governor Arno Kompatscher (SVP) in the state parliament is scheduled for January 16th.
Alliance meets headwind
The desired alliance has recently brought some headwinds to the “collective party” from civil society. 224 scientists went to the barricades with an open letter against the coalition with right-wing parties.
Around 200 artists also demonstrated against the participation of Fratelli d'Italia, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's party, in the government. However, the majority of the SVP party base appeared to support the course of Kompatscher and President Philipp Achammer.
Kompatscher tried to take the wind out of the critics' sails. Part of the coalition agreement should also be a preamble in which partners commit to values such as Europe, autonomy, sustainability and non-discrimination. The preamble and the question of autonomy – South Tyrol wants to recover Rome's lost powers – would have been, among other things, points of contention that still needed to be resolved at the end of the negotiation, of which little or nothing was made known . the world outside.