After the FDP's renewed electoral defeat at state level, Wolfgang Kubicki is practicing research into the causes - and calls for his party to be "more constructively willing to deal with conflict" within the traffic light. After all, a coalition is not a love affair.
After the FDP's electoral defeat in Berlin, deputy party leader Wolfgang Kubicki called on his party to adopt a tougher approach towards the SPD and the Greens. "The traffic light is not my problem, our role in the traffic light is not optimal," he told the "Tagesspiegel". A majority of voters are dissatisfied with the appearance of the FDP.
Kubicki called for his party to have more internal coalition conflicts. "I think our voters expect the parliamentary group to be more constructive and willing to deal with conflict than it has been up to now." However, the dispute must be conducted on the merits, not on principle. "A coalition isn't a love affair, it's supposed to move the country forward," said Kubicki.
In the Berlin election on Sunday, the FDP missed out on re-entering the state parliament with 4.6 percent. This had sparked a new debate about the party's course; FDP leader Christian Lindner cited his party's participation in the traffic light coalition as one reason for the poor performance.
For his part, Kubicki now criticized the SPD and the Greens for their attacks on the two FDP federal ministers, Volker Wissing and Marco Buschmann. These attacks are not "decent". On the other hand, more substantive discussion would be welcome, said the FDP Vice. "If a sharper tone first leads to an engaged discussion and then a good result, nobody can object."
After the FDP has lost five elections in 2022 and 2023, the next mood test for the Liberals is on May 14th. Then the citizenship in Bremen will be re-elected. In 2019, the FDP came to 5.9 percent there.
