End of May: Christian Lindner needs to return to the FDP celebration convention as a visitor – stays impartial on the query of candidates | EUROtoday

Former FDP chairman Christian Lindner needs to participate as a visitor on the FDP federal celebration convention on the finish of May, the place a successor to the incumbent chairman Christian Dürr is to be elected. “Yes, of course I’ll come as a guest,” Lindner advised the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. However, the ex-party chief didn’t specific a choice for one of many two chairman candidates, Wolfgang Kubicki or Henning Höne.

“I wouldn’t think it would be right if I got involved publicly in such questions. Ultimately, both are needed,” mentioned Lindner when requested who might higher lead the Liberals out of the disaster. Lindner emphasised that questions of path and energy shouldn’t be allowed to fester. “The prerequisites for any comeback are clarity of the offer and public interest in it,” he emphasised.

Current surveys at the moment see the FDP within the federal authorities at three to 4 %. Lindner mentioned: “The FDP’s brand values ​​were damaged during the traffic lights because some accused us of being blocked and others wanted to see us as the stirrups of left-green politics. Both are not true.” He emphasised: “The political space for a liberal force remains unchanged.”

Kubicki and Höne will run for celebration management on the finish of May

In the early federal elections in February 2025, the FDP now not made it into the Bundestag, and the then celebration chief Lindner withdrew from politics. The new chairman was the previous parliamentary group chief Christian Dürr. The Liberals beneath Dürr have been unable to make a comeback. In the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and of their residence state of Baden-Württemberg, they didn’t go the 5 % hurdle and due to this fact didn’t enter parliament.

The two deputy chairmen Kubicki and Höne at the moment are making use of for the federal presidency. The latter is the regional head of the biggest regional affiliation in North Rhine-Westphalia, however has up to now been much less identified nationwide. After Kubicki introduced that he would run for celebration management, Dürr declared that he wouldn’t run for workplace.