After election defeat: Birkner announces resignation as FDP boss NDR.de – News

The party announced this on Tuesday in Hanover. Birkner himself wrote via Twitter that he informed the committees last night that he was stepping down as state chairman. He was asked to remain in office until the state party conference in March. The Liberals were last represented as the opposition faction in the Lower Saxony state parliament. In the state election on Sunday, according to the provisional official final result, they remained below the five percent hurdle with 4.7 percent of the votes and therefore no longer have any seats in the plenum.

Liberal last state and parliamentary group chairman

Birkner has been state chairman of the Liberals since 2011 and was only re-elected in the spring with almost 93 percent of the votes. There was no opposing candidate at the time. In the expiring legislative period, Birkner was also the parliamentary group leader. From 2012 to 2013, the 49-year-old was also Minister for the Environment. In the coalition negotiations of the traffic light government in autumn last year in Berlin, he played a leading role in negotiating the area of ​​environmental protection and nature conservation.

Most recently, after the 1998 election, the FDP was not represented in the state parliament

The Liberals were last eliminated from the Lower Saxony state parliament in the 1998 election. Overall, it is the fifth time that the party has received too few votes and missed entry. In Brandenburg, Saxony and Saarland, the Liberals are currently not represented in the state parliaments.

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