Dispute before party conference: FDP wants to raise the hurdle for member surveys. FDP wrote the current minimum of 500 signatures into their statutes in 2015.
Now they want to require the approval of two and a half percent of the members for such a vote. Unlike the membership decision, a member survey is not binding according to the FDP statutes. But it has an important signaling effect, the applicants believe. Whether raising the quorum is correct is now also being discussed within the party.