FDP starts second vote campaign for Lower Saxony election
Created: 09/30/2022, 12:07 p.m
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A week before the state elections in Lower Saxony, the FDP breaks away from the CDU and campaigns aggressively for second votes in the middle-class camp.
“Bernd Althusmann will not become prime minister.
I even think it is very likely that the CDU will leave the state government," said the Secretary General of the state FDP, Konstantin Kuhle, on Friday of the German Press Agency in Berlin.
Berlin - "Now the question is which government coalition in Lower Saxony will take over the design," said Kuhle.
"I realize that there are many people who, in this difficult situation, would like a voice for economic reason, for a sound financial policy, against cold progression, for a certain pragmatism in energy policy.
You have to tell these people that every vote for the CDU is a vote that ends up in the opposition.” Therefore: “Now the second vote for the FDP is important.”
Kuhle referred to the ZDF "Politbarometer" from Friday, in which Prime Minister Stephan Weil's SPD is 32 percent and the CDU under its top candidate Bernd Althusmann is 27 percent.
The Greens get 16 percent.
With 5 percent, the FDP has to worry about returning to the state parliament.
However, Kuhle assumes that the Liberals will get over the five percent hurdle.
"The question now is: will Lower Saxony get a left-wing state government or will it get a state government from the center," said Kuhle, who is also vice-chairman of the FDP parliamentary group.
According to the latest survey, it is enough for red-green.
But: “Lower Saxony is a state of narrow majorities.
It is not certain that Red-Green will get a majority.
It can happen.
But one vote for the CDU cannot change that.” dpa