Wiesbaden (dpa/lhe) - The Hessian FDP wants to go into the state election campaign this year with a clear economic policy profile. The process for the campaign program is not yet complete, said FDP top candidate Stefan Naas of the German Press Agency in Wiesbaden. "But there is already a political agenda in my head with three keywords: economy, education and the major freedom issues."
Traditionally, at the Epiphany meeting in early January, the election campaign will officially begin in Hesse. Then it's about keeping the tension high until the planned vote in autumn 2023 and setting topics. "I'm looking forward to the election campaign. I have temperament and I'm on fire," assured Naas. Above all, he wants to use his skills as economic policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group.
As a full-time mayor in Hesse for several years, he is strongly networked and rooted in the community. "I come from the base, I don't come from the spaceship," emphasized the 49-year-old lawyer. "I'm a local and very grounded. I know the issues on the ground and I'm not a theorist." The aim of the liberals is to end black and green in Hesse. "There shouldn't be a majority from the center without the FDP."
Naas did not want to comment on whether a traffic light coalition would be conceivable for him in Hesse after the state elections as in the federal government. "I consider the FDP in Hesse to be extremely independent. I don't have a second vote campaign." It is still too early for such speculation. Apart from cooperation with the AfD and the Left, nothing can be ruled out in principle.
