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Team K

Team K
Leader	Paul Köllensperger
Founded	10 July 2018
Split from	Five Star Movement
Ideology	Regionalism Liberalism Social liberalism
Political position	Centre[1][2]tocentre-left[3]
National affiliation	More Europe
European affiliation	ALDE Party
Chamber of Deputies	0 / 630
Senate	0 / 315
European Parliament	0 / 73
Provincial Council	4 / 35
Website
www.team-k.eu
Politics of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Political parties Elections

Team K (TK), named Team Köllensperger from its establishment in July 2018 to November 2019, is a political party active in South Tyrol, where it seeks to be an inter-ethnic centrist party.^[4] Led by Paul Köllensperger, it is politically regionalist,^[5] liberal,^[6][7][8] and social-liberal.^[5][9][10]

The party, which is close to NEOS – The New Austria and Liberal Forum (NEOS), a like-minded liberal party, is an observer member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE) and formed a pact with More Europe (+Eu) for the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy. In addition to social-liberal and environmentalist policies, TK advocates a pro-European stance,^[11] and is supportive of direct democracy.^[5]

The party was established on the 10 July 2018 by Paul Köllensperger, a member of the Landtag of South Tyrol.^[12] Köllensperger was elected in the Landtag after the 2013 provincial election within the Five Star Movement (M5S).^[13] In July 2018, he left the party accusing its leadership of not being interested in promoting enough South Tyrol's local interests and that it was necessary to establish a new party aimed at representing all the South Tyroleans looking for an inter-ethnic centrist party and aiming at breaking the absolute majority of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP).^[14] In the 2018 provincial election the party obtained a successful 15.2% of the vote, arriving second after the SVP.^[15]

In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, TK, which affirmed to be taking inspiration from Austria's NEOS party,^[11] joined the ALDE party.^{[16][17][18][19][20]} Consequently, it formed a pact with +Eu, ALDE's member party in Italy, and proposed Renate Holzeisen as its candidate.^[21][22][11] The list came third with 11.2% of the vote in South Tyrol and Holzeisen was the second most-voted candidate in the province, gaining nearly 23,000 votes; she did not succeed in being elected as the list did not pass the 4% country-level electoral threshold.^[23] Holzeisen later left the party and joined and joined Vita, focusing on opposing COVID-19 vaccines.^[24]

In the 2023 provincial election the party obtained 11.1% of the vote, while Holzeisen-led Vita won 2.6%.

In the 2024 European Parliament election the party will run within Action, with Köllensperger as its candidate.^[25]

Landtag of South Tyrol
Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Leader
2018	43,315 (2nd)	15.2	6 / 35	–	Paul Köllensperger
2023	31,201 (2nd)	11.1	4 / 35	2	Paul Köllensperger Maria Elisabeth Rieder

• Leader: Paul Köllensperger (2018–present)