DFrom the point of view of FDP chairman Christian Lindner, the outcome of the election in Lower Saxony poses a problem for the entire traffic light coalition in Berlin. “The traffic light as a whole has lost its legitimacy,” said Lindner on Monday in Berlin. The losses of the SPD and FDP would not be offset by the gains of the Greens. “In this respect, the FDP does not have a problem, but the traffic light as a whole must face the challenge of gaining more support for its policy in Germany.”
Lindner emphasized: “From our point of view, we have to rethink the balance between social equality, economic responsibility and economic reason so that the traffic light can work again overall.”
The FDP is currently not able to get enough support for its clear profile, said Lindner. The FDP is facing up to the challenge of “now working out and strengthening” the profile that has been recognized as correct. She takes her time for that. It’s about “how we turn on the position lights of the FDP”. Lindner rejected changes to the basic positions of his party. He also reiterated the demand to leave the three remaining nuclear power plants connected to the grid in view of the energy crisis. “It’s not politics, it’s physics.”
The FDP only got 4.7 percent of the Lower Saxony elections on Sunday and was kicked out of the state parliament. Earlier this year she had suffered bitter defeats in the state elections in Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia.
