Overview
- Party leader Christian Dürr urged letting all laws passed since 2000 expire in the next term, with a new Bundestag re‑enacting only those deemed necessary.
- Dürr called for doubling Germany’s primary‑school spending to about 1.5% of GDP to boost early education and language skills.
- He proposed immediate entry for foreign hires who hold German job contracts, paired with no entitlement to social benefits.
- Staging mixed policy with spectacle, Wolfgang Kubicki and Marie‑Agnes Strack‑Zimmermann delivered a Muppet‑style loge routine that also featured Kubicki’s attacks on Left leader Jan van Aken.
- Argentine deregulation official Alejandro Cacace, visiting from President Javier Milei’s government, promoted aggressive rule‑cutting using Milei’s “chainsaw” metaphor, underscoring the FDP’s deregulatory pitch.