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FDP party conference live: Board member sees opportunity against CDU - "previous lack of ambition"

2021-05-14T09:21:14.413Z


Friday to Sunday the FDP is preparing for its federal election campaign. The election manifesto is adopted at the party congress. The news ticker.


Friday to Sunday the FDP is preparing for its federal election campaign.

The election manifesto is adopted at the party congress.

The news ticker.

  • The FDP * deals with its election program for the federal election * and some personnel decisions at a three-day, digital party congress.

  • Party leader Christian Lindner will give a speech on Friday at 12 noon.

  • This news ticker is continuously updated.

Berlin - The federal election in 2021 is approaching, and the party is gradually deciding on its election programs.

From Friday 11 a.m., the FDP will also deal with it - for a three-day, digital party conference.

The highlights of the program are, for example, the speech by party leader Christian Lindner on Friday at 12 noon.

In the afternoon he will run for re-election.

Lindner wants to lead the Free Democrats as the top candidate in the election.

In addition, the 662 delegates decide on other positions in the Presidium and the Federal Board.

As was the case with the CDU's digital party congress, the voting results then have to be confirmed by postal vote.

FDP party conference with Christian Lindner under the motto "There has never been more to do"

In addition to the personnel decisions, the election program of the FDP should also be adopted. “There has never been more to do”, is the motto and the draft for it, equipped with classic liberal themes, such as tax cuts and de-bureaucratisation, but also socially progressive demands. In addition, the party relied on a more modern education system and a state that is becoming more digital.

In the corona pandemic, the FDP found its role in the opposition and has been sharply criticizing the government's measures for months.

FDP politicians denounce the night curfew and longer closings in particular.

In view of the currently falling number of corona cases, FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing has, for example, again called for a clear perspective for opening up hotels and restaurants.

In the

Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung he

called for "a nationwide signal for hotels, holiday apartments and restaurants to be sent as to when things can start again for them".

The people in these industries "finally need a perspective," he said.

"The current state is a great burden."

Three-day, digital FDP party convention: In competition with CDU, SPD and Greens

In surveys, the party is currently mostly between ten and twelve percent.

The Liberals are thus close to their result in the 2017 federal election, when they received 10.7 percent of the vote.

According to its board member Johannes Vogel, the FDP will not commit itself to a specific opponent in the federal election campaign.

"My impression is that we have been successful in the past election campaigns when we have given nothing to each other with the other parties and resolutely wrestled with all competitors from the democratic spectrum for swing voters," Vogel told the German press agency.

The FDP should therefore enter into competition with both the CDU and the Greens * and SPD *.

Vogel said that the FDP should, for example, place the Greens in social policy - “where, in my impression, many voters do not even know how left their convictions are”.

In addition: "We should ask the CDU * with their previous lack of ambition, they do not even have an election program." The SPD has been responsible for the pension for years "and not a proposal for a future-proof system."

FDP party congress from Friday to Sunday in digital form

A digital party congress because of the corona pandemic always brings a certain amount of tension for everyone involved and viewers, because the technology can quickly thwart the party's plans. The FDP in Rhineland-Palatinate had to experience this recently * when the voting system did not work at its party congress.

(cibo / dpa / AFP) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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