FDP wants to realign itself and become “party of the radical center”

After failing in the Bundestag election, FDP boss Christian Dürr plans to reorganize his party. “We want to be the party of the radical center, with a consistently market economy course and real reform policy. And we will be relentlessly honest-because many people are desperate in view of the standstill in our country,” he told the German press agency in Munich.

Dürr had taken over the chief post in May. His predecessor Christian Lindner had stepped down after the FDP missed the re -entry into the Bundestag in February with 4.3 percent of the second votes. In surveys, the party is still clearly below the five percent mark.

Dürr emphasized that the FDP wanted to make people in the country being adored “who have increasingly lost the belief in the fact that the parties can solve the problems in Germany”. The Federal Government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) takes on “hundreds of billions of debts, but fails due to necessary reforms. Only one percent of people sees our country well for the future and hardly anyone believes that the current government will change anything.”

“There is a standstill in Germany – and the FDP will be the counter -draft to this standstill,” says Dürr. There are many millions of people in Germany who would do something but would have less and less of them. “Many worry about their job, their old -age insurance and their existence, while life is getting more and more expensive. People rightly demand that something has to change radically.”

This, according to Dürr, in particular the welfare state, concerns the economy or the question of how migration can be consistently steered into the labor market. “We will think again radically, because the federal government will not do it. Radical change is not decided in welfare state commissions – politicians themselves have to raise the strength itself.”