Parties: FDP party conference has begun – Beer: “Liberal corrective”

The FDP has started its three-day federal party conference in Berlin. She wants to re-elect her leadership by Sunday and mark out the further course in the traffic light coalition. Party leader Christian Lindner is standing for re-election. This is considered safe – despite the FDP failures in the past state elections.

The deputy party leader Nicola Beer explained at the opening that the FDP is “the essential part” of the federal government – “the part that has its fingers on the till, that promotes progress, that ensures mobility, that ensures justice”. The FDP convinced the voters “that this country must not be left to the others alone, that our society needs the liberal compass and that this traffic light needs the liberal corrective”.

Beer is not running for vice-president again because she is to become vice-president of the European Investment Bank (EIB). Federal Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger wants to run for one of the three deputy posts of the party.

FDP critics protest for climate protection

Several organizations protested and demanded a course correction by the liberals in climate policy in front of the event building. “The climate crisis is changing everything! When will the FDP change?” It said on a leaflet that the environmental protection organization Greenpeace distributed to participants at the meeting. She accused the FDP of blocking a speed limit on motorways and of having enforced the exception rule for e-fuels in traffic in the EU.

The campaign organization Campact demanded: “End climate sabotage”. She called on the FDP to provide 45 billion euros for buses and trains and to promote a heating transition with renewable energies instead of oil and gas heating.

Climate activist Luisa Neubauer had previously accused Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) of a “climate policy refusal to work” in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”. He must resign.