Amberg (dpa / lby) - At the start of its two-day state party conference on Saturday and Sunday in Amberg, the Bavarian FDP wants to nominate its top candidate for the state elections next year. It is practically certain that the Free Democrats, with their parliamentary group leader Martin Hagen, will lead the race. The parliamentary group and the state executive had already nominated the 41-year-old. The party conference is now to approve the proposal. With currently twelve MPs, the FDP is the smallest of the six parliamentary groups in the Bavarian state parliament.
The FDP will fight for re-entry next year. The latest Bayern trend saw them at just three percent. If it stays that way, the Liberals, like their party colleagues in Lower Saxony recently, would leave the state parliament. In Lower Saxony, the failure was also seen as a result of the FDP's government participation at the federal level. In Bavaria, the FDP recently deliberately emphasized state-political issues. "In the election campaign, we will consistently focus on state politics and convince with our core competencies of business, education and digitization," Hagen had already explained in advance.
