This should be done in close cooperation with the Südtiroler Jugendring, which is the initiator of the project. SVP member of the state parliament Magdalena Amhof and five other parliamentary group colleagues have submitted a motion for a resolution that will be dealt with in the South Tyrolean state parliament next week.
The presidential elections in America have shown once again that the South Tyrolean youth are very interested in politics. “Numerous contributions to the discussion on the social media platforms are proof that our young people are open to politics and express their opinions critically and freely”, Magdalena Amhof observed the events of the last few days on Instagram and TikTok. She is the first to sign the motion for a resolution on the “shadow elections”, which was drawn up in collaboration with the South Tyrolean Youth Association. In a meeting with the chairman Tanja Rainer and the managing director Kevin Hofer, Amhof and SVP parliamentary group chairman Gert Lanz were able to convince themselves that the “shadow elections” project, which was implemented as part of the latest in six South Tyrolean municipalities, was quite useful and interesting .
In the resolution proposal, the consignors request the South Tyrolean provincial government to continue the concept of “shadow elections” in cooperation with the South Tyrolean Youth Association and the South Tyrolean Association of Municipalities and to extend it to all elections. “Currently, the election results of the shadow elections on September 20, as well as the experiences and results from the previous workshops are summarized in a documentation and presented to the local councils,” explains Amhof.
You and the members of the state parliament, Gert Lanz, Jasmin Ladurner, Franz Locher and Manfred Vallazza see this initiative as ‘lived’ political education. “That is why we want to support this model and hope that our colleagues in the South Tyrolean parliament will give broad approval,” says Amhof.
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