Membership survey: FDP starts according to the election debacle content -related reorganization

First listen: With a membership survey, the FDP begins with its new position after the debacle in the Bundestag election. The party leadership wants to find out what political concerns and expectations people have in order to then formulate the right political answers. It is planned to extend the survey that has now started in a few days to expand non -members.

“In times of change, we also want to rethink free democrats-more open, digital and closer to the everyday life of people,” said Secretary General Nicole Büttner of the German Press Agency. “We therefore start listening when we renew our party and the development of our new fundamental program.” People should have the feeling that “politics takes them seriously and find concrete solutions for their everyday challenges”.

FDP flown from the Bundestag with 4.3 percent

In the Bundestag election in February, the FDP failed significantly at the five percent hurdle with 4.3 percent of the second votes and has not been in parliament since then. It was her worst result in a federal election.

The Liberals completed the new beginning of personnel at a federal party conference last May. There, the former group leader Christian Dürr succeeded Christian Lindner as party chairman. Büttner was elected new general secretary.

FDP develops a new basic program

The surveys are the prelude to the work on a new fundamental program with which the liberals want to find back to the success in the next federal election. With the help of the answers received, also with the support of artificial intelligence – main focuses on topics and central social challenges should be made visible.

For this, the FDP plans to develop concrete political solutions from autumn – for this too, it promises broad participation options for members and public.

According to FDP, the ideas obtained in this way will then flow into the work of the program commission, which is to develop the draft for the new fundamental program on this basis. This is to be decided at the Federal Party Congress in May next year. “Our fundamental program should become a future plan for an innovative, unbureaucratic and free Germany – carried by a broad social participation,” said Büttner.

For the first time use of AI when developing a basic program

The use of artificial intelligence when developing the basic program is a novelty. This shows the handwriting of the new general secretary, the entrepreneur and managing director of a Berlin AI company. Büttner had already explained in her election: “We want to be the most modern party in Germany.”

What the FDP wants to know from members and citizens

The questions that the FDP asks its approximately 70,000 members and the citizens are relatively general. They are, for example: “What challenges do you currently experience – in your everyday life and with a view to our society?” Or: “What makes you hope today?” And: “What do you wish for Germany in 2040?”

The classic FDP topic freedom is also queried: “What does freedom mean for you – which values and principles are important to you?” The members can take part in the survey by FDP app, the citizens later via the FDP homepage.

First test for FDP as early as March 2026

The new election program will be late for the first two major tests in the coming year. On March 8, the state parliament will be re -elected in Baden -Württemberg – which the FDP looks at as its mainland – on March 22nd in Rhineland -Palatinate. The FDP is still in the state government there. Failures in these two state elections would also make the nationwide regeneration of the liberals difficult.