2024-07-30 00:43:35
In the polls, the FDP is close to the five percent hurdle. Now FDP leader Lindner is attacking a coalition partner in an ARD summer interview.
FDP leader Christian Lindner has ruled out his party’s participation in a possible federal government led by the Greens: “One thing is clear to me: Even more green, i.e. with a green chancellor and a greener government program, that would not suit us,” said the finance minister in an interview with ARD’s “Hauptstadtstudio”. “With that, I have already said something for the case of a possible candidate for chancellor, Habeck,” he added. Federal Minister of Economics Robert Habeck is considered the Greens’ most likely candidate for chancellor after Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock publicly announced that she would not be a candidate.
Lindner made his statement in the social media format “Ask yourself,” in which viewers can submit questions online and which was shown online before the broadcast of the classic ARD “summer interview” on Sunday. One user had asked whether Lindner would again support a government with the participation of the Greens. That was an open question, he said. The election programs are not yet known. The FDP will take a position on this in due course.
The next federal election is expected to take place on September 28, 2025. According to current polls, a repeat of the traffic light coalition would be unlikely, and a majority of the SPD, Greens and FDP would no longer be enough. The Free Democrats themselves are only hovering between 4 and 6 percent.
When asked what arguments he would use to get his party over the five percent hurdle again, Lindner said that the FDP is the only party that stands for individual freedom, trusts people and respects achievement and property. That is what they fight for every day. “Where are the noises of the traffic light coalition coming from? Because the FDP is opposed to policies that the SPD and Greens would pursue without us. We would like to continue that. Our country must continue to be led forward from the center, it must not be led to the left.”