The politician presented her new look on Instagram on Sunday. “I made this bet, I lost it, and that’s why I’m cashing it in,” Büttner said in a short video on Instagram. “It’s very clear to me that I stand by my word.”

FDP failed in the Baden-Württemberg election due to the five percent hurdle

The background to the redesign is the fact that the FDP failed to pass the five percent hurdle in the state elections in Baden-Württemberg a week ago and was thrown out of parliament. In January, Büttner told the “Schwäbische Zeitung” that she loved her curly hair, but would shave it off if the FDP failed to re-enter the Baden-Württemberg state parliament: “It’s all gone. Radical.”