South Tyrol: SVP blocks negotitations after the cancellation of a Senate seat in South Tyrol

South Tyrolean People's Party and Lega have agreed on a state government. But only when the autonomy conflict with Rome is resolved, it will come to forming a government. Arno Kompatscher has already made it clear: The government negotiations with the Lega are one thing: a party-internal matter of the South Tyrol People's Party (SVP).

The autonomous attitude of Rome with the cancellation of a Senate seat in South Tyrol - from three to two - without prior consultation with Bolzano and Vienna, as provided in the Statute of Autonomy, is a question of South Tyrol. But that also has implications for a coalition and could overturn successful government talks with the Lega.

The proportionality of the language groups must also be ensured with a comprehensible reduction of Senate seats from 315 to 200. Possibly South Tyrol will retain its three seats - two for German-speaking senators and one for an Italian mandator - and Trentino will receive two in the future. This is also the preferred variant of Arno Kompatscher. Only when this question is satisfactorily clarified, the SVP gives the green light. Both Kompatscher and Achammer were satisfied with the government program.