Fight for autonomy: South Tyrol's rights are on the brink!

Fight for autonomy: South Tyrol's rights are on the brink!

In a explosive call, the FPÖ and the opposition south Tyrolean freedom have pointed out the stagnating autonomy negotiations between South Tyrol and the Italian government on Friday. The South Tyrolean member of the state parliament Sven Knoll from South Tyrolean Freedom complained about the current “dead end” and demanded that Austria be integrated as a “protective power and contractual partner”. Knoll is about the restoration of autonomy skills for South Tyrol that have been lost in recent years at a press conference in Innsbruck. He warned that the adoption of the Constitutional Act until the parliamentary election in 2027 in Rome was at risk, while the Italian government accuses him of "extortion methods" to set more influence on Italians, reports OE24.at .

attacks on the autonomy of South Tyrol

This dramatic state is reinforced by the recent demands of the Italian government parties who try to abolish the proportion in the political representation of the Italians in South Tyrol. FPÖ-Südtirol spokesman Peter Wurm sharply criticized these measures and described them as unacceptable attacks on autonomy. "The autonomy of South Tyrol is an indispensable part of our political identity and serves to protect the German and Ladin-speaking ethnic group as an Austrian minority in Italy," Kurm clarified in another press conference in Innsbruck. He asked the Austrian Federal Government to finally take its protective function seriously and to be vehemently committed to restoring autonomy, so Oots.at .

While the FPÖ continues to urge the need for a double citizenship for the South Tyrolean, the Tyrolean FPÖ member of the state parliament Gudrun Kofler is dissatisfied with the previous “appeasement attempts” from the federal government. "It cannot be that autonomous rights are constantly being circumcised," she said. The conversations on the reform of the autonomy statement must lead to success so that the rights achieved in the past are no longer being hollowed out.