At the state party conference of the FDP in Bavaria, the Liberals chose 41-year-old Martin Hagen as their top candidate for next year’s state elections in Bavaria. At the party conference in Amberg, he received 339 of the 380 valid delegate votes. He was the only candidate and had previously been proposed by the state executive and the state parliamentary group for the top candidacy. 33 delegates voted against Hagen, eight abstained.
In the 2018 state election, the Bavarian FDP narrowly made it into the state parliament with 5.1 percent of the vote. In the most recent polls, however, the Bavarian FDP has fallen to around three percent of the votes. If the election were to stay with this result, it would no longer be enough to enter the state parliament. Hagen now announces “eleven months full throttle” for the state election campaign and prepares his party friends for a tough election campaign.
In the recent history of the Bavarian Free Democrats, they had never managed to gain seats in parliament for two consecutive legislative periods.