This is reported by the “Mirror” from the meeting. At the same time, she is said to have offered to take over the party chairmanship – but only as part of a dual leadership. The head of the FDP in the European Parliament is available for the chairmanship alongside a second person, it is said.

Party leader Dürr and general secretary Nicole Büttner do not seem to want to vacate their posts so far. You only took over the party leadership ten months ago.

Strack-Zimmermann would be in favor of dual leadership – but the FDP statute does not yet allow it

However, this is currently not possible because the FDP statute does not provide for this. This would have to be changed first. A corresponding application for the federal party conference in May has already been submitted.

Strack Zimmermann had already become disastrous on Sunday evening Election results of your party in Rhineland-Palatinate expressed. She sees them Cause in wrong strategic decisions. “After months without a recognizable strategy, many people lack confidence that something will change for the better,” said Strack-Zimmermann to the “Tagesspiegel” (Monday edition). According to projections, the FDP only received around two percent of the vote in the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate on Sunday; it had previously achieved 4.4 percent in Baden-Württemberg – and thus missed entry into the state parliament in both states.

FDP politician on the situation of the FDP: “Didn’t even start running after the federal election”

On the one hand, this is still due to the missed entry into the Bundestag at the beginning of 2025, said Strack-Zimmermann: “This shock is still in everyone’s bones.” But her party failed to learn the right lessons from it: “Not being elected to the Bundestag once is tragic, and a second time is a political failure.”

With a view to the party leadership around Christian Dürr, Strack-Zimmermann criticized: “I fear that many in and outside the FDP have the feeling that we haven’t even gotten started since the federal election.” The FDP MEP now sees her party in a very threatening situation: “If a party only gets two percent of the vote, that is existential.”