Do FDP voters have to fear that they will get an alliance with red-green after this federal election?
This question seems to preoccupy many of them. A survey for BILD LIVE, the BILD television broadcaster, shows: 44 percent of FDP voters are considering voting for Armin Laschet (60), the CDU / CSU’s candidate for chancellor. Because: This is the only way you can prevent a Chancellor Olaf Scholz (63, SPD).
FDP boss Christian Lindner (42) tried in the BILD-LIVE interview to take this fear away from his voters. “In terms of content, we are closer to the CDU / CSU than to the SPD and the Greens,” he said.
But: At the coalition talks in 2017, the Union had shown that it would also be willing to take part in a shift to the left in favor of the Greens. That won’t happen with the FDP.
Forego a coalition again? “I am free of fear”
“We have a clear coalition statement in favor of content, not in favor of a party,” said Lindner. And: “We guarantee the middle”. Means: “We will not go along with a left shift.”
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Would he enter a government with the SPD and the Greens? Lindner does not want to explicitly rule this out. But also not that he would do without again, according to his motto from 2017 “Better not to rule than to rule wrongly”. Isn’t he afraid of becoming the nation’s bogeyman again? “I’m free of fear,” said Lindner.
Lindner emphasized that he could have become Vice Chancellor and did without it. But: “The office of Vice Chancellor is only interesting on the letterhead.”
“The importance of the next chancellor will decrease”
The political importance of the next Federal Chancellor will noticeably decrease, because: “Over 70 percent of the people will not have voted for the party that will later provide the Chancellor.”
Conclusion: “It is not the Chancellor that is decisive, but the coalition.”
Lindner commented critically that he is already being referred to in the media as a “kingmaker”: “That is a word that is circulating in the media, but with which I am not really happy. Because we are self-confident in our content, but we don’t overestimate ourselves either. ”
The goal of the FDP in this federal election: to land as close as possible to the Greens. Should it – as the surveys currently clearly show – achieve a double-digit result for the second time in a row, this would be a “historic success”. It would be a first in the history of the FDP.
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