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FDP Pitches 'Radical' Reset at Dreikönigstreffen With Law Sunset, Double School Spend, Contract-Led Migration

Low polls plus looming Baden‑Württemberg and Rhineland‑Palatinate votes turn the showy relaunch into a high‑risk bid for relevance.

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.