Vienna (OTS) – Federal Chairwoman and Youth State Secretary Claudia Plakolm was unanimously appointed as Federal Chairwoman of the JVP by the federal leadership of the Young People’s Party (JVP) on Saturday in Innsbruck for a further term of three years. The election will take place at the Young ÖVP Bundestag on June 29, 2024.
Sophia Kircher, Harald Zierfuß, Julian Geier, Antonia Herunter, Moritz Otahal and Sebastian Stark were designated as deputies. Matthias Wukitsch as finance officer and Julian Bitsche and Maximilian Aichinger are to complete the federal executive board as additional members.
The new program is promising
More than twenty demands from the Young ÖVP, which can be found in the key motion of the last Bundestag in 2021, were implemented in this legislative period, for example the introduction of the ordering principle for broker fees, the “Healthy out of the Crisis” project, more school psychologists, and credit recognition of community service in nursing professions, the introduction of nursing apprenticeships, the school subject digital basic education, the voluntary summer school, the digital driver’s license, home office hubs in communities, establishment of a service center for volunteer work, increase in basic earnings for community service, the first and second increases in federal youth funding since its existence in 20 years and the youth exchange with Israel.
The new key motion for the future was developed over the course of a year with young people across Austria, all federal state organizations of the JVP and friendly organizations and is also up for vote at the Bundestag in Schladming.
Strongly anchored
The Young People’s Party is also heavily involved in terms of personnel. Claudia Plakolm has been Austria’s first youth state secretary for two and a half years; 19 of 42 candidates on the People’s Party’s list for the EU elections are under 35 years old. 16 members of the state parliament, one federal councilor, one EU member and eight members of the national council are JVPers.
Claudia Plakolm
Claudia Plakolm began her political career in 2015 as a local councilor. In 2016 she was elected regional chairwoman of the JVP Upper Austria. In 2017, Claudia Plakolm became the youngest member of the National Council at the time. In 2021 she became Austria’s first Youth State Secretary, in 2022 her department was expanded to include community service agendas and responsibility for volunteer work was added. As of May 1, 2024, she will also be taking over the digitization agenda.
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