“D-Day” paper: Green Party chief Banaszak describes the FDP as a “very authoritarian party” | EUROtoday

The new Green Party chief, Felix Banaszak, has expressed doubts about FDP chief Christian Lindner’s presentation of the controversial “D-Day” paper on phasing out visitors lights. “I have doubts,” stated Banaszak when requested whether or not he believed that Lindner knew nothing concerning the paper. The FDP is a “very authoritarian party”.

You should ask your self what sort of “people” you need to be ruled by who take care of the reality and untruths on this means, stated Banaszak in Cottbus on the get together convention of the Brandenburg state affiliation of the Greens. The FDP doesn’t imagine its personal management. “That’s obvious.” But he emphasised that he didn’t need to intervene any additional within the FDP’s personnel issues. The second Green Party chief, Franziska Brantner, additionally expressed doubts about Lindner’s presentation.

Lindner had stated about his get together’s working paper that it had by no means been mentioned in political committees and that he had no data of it. He does not blame the workers who drafted the paper. “I bear overall responsibility for the FDP, and I am committed to that,” he stated on the ARD “Tagesthemen”. The paper describes the FDP’s attainable exit from the visitors lights utilizing army phrases comparable to “D-Day” and “open field battle”.

The coalition collapsed initially of November. FDP General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai and Federal Managing Director Carsten Reymann resigned on Friday. “I unknowingly provided incorrect information about an internal document. This was not my intention as I myself had no knowledge of this paper,” Djir-Sarai stated, apologizing.

Reymann, who is alleged to have written the paper, defined that he wished to “enable the party to reorganize its personnel in the Hans-Dietrich-Genscher-Haus”. “The FDP is facing an important federal election, which is a directional choice for Germany. The FDP should go into this election campaign with full force and without stressful personnel debates.”