FDP Leader Christian Lindner Criticizes the Increasingly Harsh Tone in the Bundestag Election Campaign. “This is an election campaign that has polarized like rarely before” he said on Sunday at the FDP federal party convention in Potsdam.
“The tone has become rougher at our rallies – it sometimes gets loud and boisterous there” Lindner said. “There are protests and disturbances and on the other side, the blue ribbon is still growing in the polls.” The center is increasingly under pressure from the left and right.
The FDP leader also pointed out that the majority of disturbances at FDP events came from the left spectrum. “It’s the Antifa, it’s the DKP, it’s the Green Youth, it’s the Left Party, it’s the Climate Glue” Lindner said. “We are disrupted at our events and on our rallies by the entire left.” The left protest, however, is “the best election helper for a liberal party of the center” Lindner said.
The head of the Liberals also spoke out against the AfD: “The AfD is an anti-liberal and anti-business party that we will combat” he said. “We don’t want it to happen in Germany that, like in Austria, the combination of black and green follows the combination of blue and black in Germany.” The AfD will not be made small by moral appeals, he added. It’s not “protest marches and candlelight” that will get us there, but an economic turnaround, Lindner said.