Reorganization of the FDP
Nicole Büttner is the new Secretary General of the FDP
The FDP wants to start a restart with a new team at the top and back to the Bundestag in four years. An entrepreneur should hold the shop together.
The new FDP general secretary Nicole Büttner wants a consistent digitization of the state. In addition, the entrepreneur elected at the federal party conference in Berlin said: “I want to be a general secretary who newly networked our party that connects heads from business, science, society and start-ups with the FDP.”
The 40-year-old received the necessary support with 491 of the votes cast (80 percent). Büttner has been a member of the FDP for 20 years and has not yet been in the Federal Political Ramp Light. She is the managing director of the Berlin AI company Merantix Momentum. It also belongs to the board of the Federal Association of German Startups.
State services should be available digitally
Büttner introduced herself to the delegates as an entrepreneur who was happily married and had two children. She comes from Karlsruhe. Her mother comes from Jamaica.
She called for the contact of the citizens to completely modernize authorities. “Why don’t we think big and disruptive. Instead of digital forms, something like a digital citizenship. Every citizen receives a digital app for all authorities,” she said. “That would mean that all state services are available digitally, apart from maybe marriage and divorce. Every citizen has a digital ID with which he deals with authorities, tax returns, company report online.”
The new party chairman Christian Dürr had proposed Büttner for the office. It takes on this task instead of former Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann. He had withdrawn politically after the FDP had failed with 4.3 percent of the votes in the Bundestag.
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Source: Stern
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