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FDP party and parliamentary group leader Christian Lindner
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For the return to the Bundestag, the FDP federal chairman Christian Lindner got a tailwind from his party.
The NRW state party voted the 42-year-old in Dortmund at number 1 on the state list for the federal election in autumn.
He received 96.9 percent of the delegate's votes.
The native of Wuppertal did not have an opponent.
Internal party approval was even higher than in 2017, when it was 91.2 percent.
Lindner made it clear to the delegates that he wanted to lead the FDP in Berlin from the opposition bank to the rudder of government.
"We are ready to take on responsibility for the Federal Republic of Germany." Participation in the government, however, depends on the correct contents of a coalition agreement.
Above all, Lindner wants to remove bureaucratic ballast for the economy.
The state election meeting of the NRW-FDP took place on site, the participants only came into the hall after a negative Corona test result.
There were also distance and hygiene rules.
However, not all of the 400 delegates entitled to vote came in person; some also transferred their voting rights to party colleagues.
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