Franziska Brandmann
The FDP youth is calling for the resignation of the Secretary General
The FDP is said to have planned to break the traffic light coalition. After great pressure, she made the associated “D-Day” paper public herself. Young liberals call this “unworthy.”
A single vote, or the beginning of the reorganization of the FDP? Franziska Brandmann, chairwoman of the youth organization Junge Liberale, is the first to publicly call for the resignation of General Secretary Bijan Djir-Sarai. Djir-Sarai is said to have taken part in the formerly secret meetings of the party leadership in which a coalition break was discussed. He then publicly denied knowing about the term “D-Day,” which is central to the paper, including in a . The paper was created at the employee level, he told “Welt”: “No one from the leadership of the FDP knew the paper.”
On Thursday evening, in which a possible exit from the traffic light coalition is outlined – and how it could be achieved. Now the question arises: Did the Liberals deliberately prepare the coalition break? And who has to go because of that?
The FDP leadership deceived their own party
Brandmann himself sits on the party’s federal executive board. She calls the D-Day paper “unworthy of a liberal party.” The public and one’s own party were deceived, “I was also deceived.” The behavior gives a deep insight: “What you see there doesn’t fit with the Free Democrats as I know them – confident, credible and openly advocating for liberal politics. It’s the opposite of all that.”
She calls the general secretary’s statements that employees are responsible for the wording “unacceptable”: “As general secretary, Bijan Djir-Sarai bears political responsibility for the content and direction of the party. In order to prevent further damage to the party, I have the general secretary asked to resign from his position.”
As Secretary General, Bijan Djir-Sarai bears political responsibility for the content and direction of the party. To prevent further damage to the party, I have called on the General Secretary to resign from his position.
— Franziska Brandmann (@fbrandmann) November 29, 2024
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Brandmann is currently the first prominent liberal to comment on this. In initial reactions, other prominent FDP members defended the party (summarized here at star). Wolfgang Kubicki called the outrage “silly,” and Djir-Sarai had only rejected a possible resignation on Thursday. It was professional to prepare for the end of the traffic light. Only Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann spoke of “self-criticism and coming to terms with it”.
On June 6, 1944, the so-called “D-Day”, the Allies landed in Normandy to liberate Europe from National Socialism. This is also why the term in the FDP paper has been widely criticized in recent weeks. The publication was preceded by several media reports, including from the news portal “Table.Briefings”, the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and “Zeit”.
Source: Stern
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