Overview
- Hüskens defeated parliamentary leader Andreas Silbersack for the top list spot by 64 to 45, with one no vote, at the FDP delegates' meeting in Staßfurt.
- She framed her campaign around limiting state overregulation and debt, calling both a threat to freedom and progress.
- Hüskens criticized the AfD as uninterested in solutions, positioning the FDP as trusting people to shape their own lives.
- Silbersack called winning seats again a Herculean task and accused the Greens and the Left of seeking to curb personal freedoms.
- The election for the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag is scheduled for 6 September 2026, and Hüskens enters the race as state party chair and minister for infrastructure and digital affairs.