Saxony-Anhalt: Hüskens focuses on local elections in 2024

After returning to the state parliament, the FDP also wants to score points in the 2024 local elections.

Saxony-Anhalt: Hüskens focuses on local elections in 2024

After returning to the state parliament, the FDP also wants to score points in the 2024 local elections. In seminars, the members are to be made fit for mandates.

Magdeburg (dpa/sa) - FDP state leader Lydia Hüskens wants to take the momentum with her after the Liberals returned to parliament last year in order to achieve a good result in the 2024 local elections. "Local politics has always been our basis for us in Saxony-Anhalt. We want to put up good candidates in the 2024 election," said Hüskens of the German Press Agency. However, Hüskens does not want to set a specific percentage target for the local elections.

According to their own statements, the Liberals have gained around 100 new members since the end of 2020, many of whom are under 35 years old. With seminars, for example on the topics of rhetoric or writing applications, the members should be made fit for local politics. "The new training offers are met with great interest, both among young and older members," said Hüskens. The party had also become more open to discussion. "I like that."

"The state party has developed well in recent years. The defeat in the 2016 state election was a wake-up call for us," said the FDP state leader. At that time, the Liberals narrowly missed entering parliament with 4.9 percent.

A year ago, Hüskens was elected the new head of state on July 24, 2021. After ten years of extra-parliamentary opposition, she had led the Liberals back into the state parliament as the top candidate. The party had achieved 6.4 percent of the votes and is now back in the state parliament with seven MPs. With Johann Hauser (69) and Konstantin Pott (24), she provides both the oldest and the youngest member of parliament.

Saxony-Anhalt has been governed by a coalition of CDU, SPD and FDP since September. The Liberals have replaced the Greens in government.