Berlin The financial politician Christian Dürr is to become the new parliamentary group leader of the FDP and thus successor to Christian Lindner. Lindner suggested the 44-year-old from Lower Saxony for the post on Thursday.
Deputy party chairman Johannes Vogel is applying for the post of first parliamentary manager of the parliamentary group. The top group will be elected next Tuesday.
Both offices were vacated because top FDP politicians move into the federal cabinet: Lindner is to become finance minister, the previous parliamentary managing director Marco Buschmann minister of justice. “Spiegel” was the first to report on the personnel proposals.
“There are important tasks ahead of us because parliament is of particular importance in these times,” said Dürr after the dpa parliamentary group meeting. Therefore, he offered to take over the post of group leader.
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Vogel emphasized: “We need a strong liberal faction in Parliament that supports, drives and thinks about progress.” As party vice, he also wants to be a programmatic bridge between party and faction.
Appointed Parliamentary State Secretaries
The designated federal ministers of the Liberals also presented their parliamentary state secretaries to the FDP parliamentary group on Thursday. Members of the Bundestag Katja Hessel and Florian Toncar are to take over these offices in the Federal Ministry of Finance.
In the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital, Daniela Kluckert, Oliver Luksic and Michael Theurer are to become parliamentary state secretaries if the traffic light coalition of the SPD, Greens and FDP comes about as planned.
Benjamin Strasser is to take over this position in the Federal Ministry of Justice. Jens Brandenburg and Thomas Sattelberger are designated as Parliamentary State Secretaries in the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
The party congresses of the SPD and FDP still have to approve the coalition agreement, and a member vote is underway among the Greens. The aim of the traffic light parties is to elect Olaf Scholz (SPD) as Federal Chancellor next week.
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