Overview

• Party leader Christian Dürr announced an ideological reset, declaring the FDP the party of the radical centre with a consistently market-oriented program and real reform politics.
• Dürr said the party will radically rethink the welfare state and economic policy and direct migration more deliberately into the labour market.
• He positioned the FDP as an antidote to perceived stagnation and criticized Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s government for taking on hundreds of billions in new debt without delivering necessary reforms.
• The outreach focuses on people worried about jobs, pensions and rising living costs, with Dürr noting that only one percent consider Germany well prepared for the future.
• After missing the Bundestag with 4.3 percent in February and still polling below five percent, the FDP is rebuilding under Dürr’s leadership with Nicole Büttner as general secretary.