Union for South Tyrol
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| Secretary | Andreas Pöder |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Headquarters | Via Garibaldi, 6 39100 Bolzano |
| Newspaper | Zukunft Heimat |
| Membership | unknown |
| Ideology | Regionalism, Nationalism |
| Coalition | none |
| International | none |
| European party | none |
| European Parliament Group | currently no MEPs |
| Website | http://www.unionfs.com |
The Union for South Tyrol (Union für Südtirol, UfS) is an independentist and nationalist political party in the Italian Province of Bolzano-Bozen committed to the German-speaking minority and its right to self-determination. Its leader is Andreas Pöder.
The UfS, once a member of the European Free Alliance, has been expelled from that organization in 2008 after it has refused to condemn islamophobia and insisted upon the defense of "European Christian values".
In the 2003 provincial election, UfS won 6.8% of the vote and gained 2 seats in the Provincial Council of Bolzano-Bozen (and thus in the Regional Council of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol)[1]. After a power struggle, especially with Andreas Pöder, in May 2007 the historical party leader Eva Klotz left the party and founded a new far right movement named South Tyrolean Freedom.
In the 2008 general election, severely damaged by the split and by the competition of The Libertarians, UfS won only 4.2% of the vote in the Province.
