It was not a nice day for the FDP Rhineland-Palatinate.
They had to cancel their digital party conference on Saturday, of all things because of technical problems.
Mainz - Having to break off a party conference is uncomfortable for a party for many reasons.
Right now, during the corona pandemic, the parties have to fear technical problems every time, since the events are digital.
At the “beginners”, such as the 2020 Greens party convention and the CDU party congress in early 2021, everyone looked excitedly: Is everything going smoothly?
The FDP in Rhineland-Palatinate is now likely to be particularly angry.
She had to break off her party convention on Saturday - the reason: technical problems with the voting system.
There are occasional remarks on Twitter such as: "Wasn't the FDP the digital party?"
FDP Rhineland-Palatinate cancels digital party conference - of all things the "digital party"
Memories of popular election campaign slogans quickly come to mind: "Digital first, concerns second".
Or the posters for the 2017 federal election with FDP leader Christian Lindner and the slogan: “Digitization changes everything.
When will the policy change? "
For the FDP in Rhineland-Palatinate, nothing will change in the state executive for the time being.
At the meeting, the body should be re-appointed, now the party congress has been postponed.
He was formally interrupted "for an indefinite period of time".
The delegates are invited to a new appointment.
Cancellation of the digital party congress of the Rhineland-Palatinate FDP: repeated attempts and interruptions did not help
But for that, the technology has to work again first. Shortly after the meeting began at 10 a.m., the first problems arose with individual votes. Even after repeated attempts and interruptions, these could not be remedied. At around 1.30 p.m., the party congress presidium decided to end the meeting for the time being. The FDP relied on the "safe and certified system" Polyas. "We trusted that it would work," said the state chairman and FDP general secretary Volker Wissing. But apparently nothing could be done. "The service provider who makes his online voting system available to us cannot quickly solve the technical problems on his certified tool, so we are forced to invite again," the party writes on Twitter.
In the end it was of course not possible for the delegates to vote on the cancellation.
As reported by the German Press Agency, they were able to express their approval with the applause symbol in the chat.
Nobody made use of the possibility of raising concerns about the termination in a verbal contribution.
FDP state chairman Volker Wissing governs the cancellation again via Twitter - in slogan form
The technology still worked on Thursday evening.
At this extraordinary party congress, the delegates approved the coalition agreement with the SPD and the Greens for another traffic light coalition in Rhineland-Palatinate.
In terms of content, Wissing criticized the federal government's corona policy again in his speech at the beginning of the party congress - when no one could foresee the abrupt end.
You got into the pandemic
Acted “haphazardly”.
The corona crisis revealed many existing problems in Germany.
In the afternoon, Wissing positioned himself again on his Twitter account about the cancellation and wrote: “FDP too” - thumbs up and a wink smiley.
In addition, a picture with a slogan in the typical FDP lettering in magenta-pink on a yellow and blue background: “Trial and Error.
Trial and error.
Trial and success. ”So he remains confident.
(cibo)
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