South Tyrolese People's Party

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The South Tyrolean People's Party (German: Südtiroler Volkspartei) was founded 1945 and is a political party in the South Tyrol region of Italy.

The SVP campaigns on a program of increased rights for German and Ladin-speakers in the South Tyrol region, which was annexed by Italy after the First World War, to some success; the province now has wide autonomy. There is no official ideology in the party, as it is meant to represent all German and Ladin speakers in South Tyrol.

Since the first elections to the regional parliament (1948), the party has gained more than 50 percent, and is also providing most of the 116 mayors in South Tyrol.

In the 2004 European Parliamentary Election the SVP formed an electoral grouping with the Olive Tree coalition, on the understanding that an SVP candidate would be included in the list of elected if they could achieve more than 50,000 votes. In practice, Michl Ebner gained 93,169 votes and was included in the list of MEPs.

2006 elections

In the 9-10 April 2006 general elections, the party was member of the winning The Union (L'Unione) and won 5 out of 315 senators and 4 out of 630 deputies.

Political parties of Italy ^[edit]

	The Union	House of Freedoms
Represented in Parliament	Federation of the Olive Tree (Democrats of the Left, Daisy—Democracy is Freedom, European Republican Movement) \| Communist Refoundation Party \| Rose in the Fist (Italian Democratic Socialists, Italian Radicals) \| Party of Italian Communists \| Italy of Values \| Federation of the Greens \| Popular-UDEUR \| South Tyrolese People's Party \| Autonomy Liberty Democracy	Forza Italia \| National Alliance \| Union of Christian and Centre Democrats \| LN/MpA (Northern League, Movement for Autonomy) \| New DC/NPSI (Christian Democracy for the Autonomies, Socialist Party New PSI) \| For Italy in the World with Tremaglia
Minor	Pensioners' Party \| The Socialists \| Italian Democratic Socialist Party \| Left-Wing Radicals \| Federation of Italian Liberals \| Federation of Liberal Democrats \| United Democratic Christians \| Consumers' List \| New Party of Action \| United Consumers \| Party of Christian Democracy \| Republicans for the Union (Democratic Republicans, Republican Democracy) \| League for Autonomy-Lombard Alliance \| Project Sardinia \| Veneto Front League	Social Alternative (Social Action, New Force, National Social Front) \| Social Movement Tricolour Flame \| Italian Liberal Party \| Liberal Reformers \| No Euro Movement \| Italian Republican Party \| Secular Italy \| United Pensioners \| Christian Extended Pact \| CD - Shield with the Cross - Libertas \| Environmental List-Ecological Democrats \| Federalist Greens \| S.O.S. Italy \| New Sicily \| Pact for Sicily \| Unitalia
Regional	Aosta Valley Live \| Die Freiheitlichen \| Valdotanian Union \| Ladins \| Sardinian Action Party \| Independence-Republic of Sardinia \| Sardinia Nation \| Union for South Tyrol \| Sicilian Alliance
Others	Fascism and Freedom Movement \| For the South \| Green Greens \| Humanist Party \| Internationalist Communist Party \| Italian Association in South America \| Italian Marxist-Leninist Party \| Liberal Socialist Action Party \| Marxist-Leninist Italian Communist Party \| Moderate Italy \| Monarchist Alliance \| National Democratic Party \| National New Order \| National Right-New ISM \| North-East Project \| Pact of Liberal Democrats \| Social Idea Movement \| Southern League
Historical	Christian Democracy \| Italian Communist Party \| Italian Socialist Party \| Italian Social Movement \| Democratic Party of the Left \| Proletarian Democracy \| Proletarian Unity Party \| Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity] \| Unified Socialist Party \| Democratic Alliance \| National Fascist Party

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