Regardless of the still weak polls, the Bavarian FDP is optimistic about the state election year. “The FDP is not yet where it wants to be, but the FDP is on the upswing,” said party and parliamentary group leader Martin Hagen on Thursday at the beginning of the winter retreat of the FDP state parliamentary group in the Upper Bavarian monastery of Seeon. However, the bottom has been passed and the trend reversal achieved. “Things are going up for the FDP,” said Hagen. He referred to the “Bayern trend” of the Bayerischer Rundfunk on Wednesday – there the FDP had climbed again by one point to four percent compared to the October survey. In the end, however, five percent are needed to get back into the state parliament in the state elections on October 8th.
Hagen referred to the growing satisfaction with the state FDP – 22 percent had recently expressed themselves positively in the survey, which was a plus of three points. That is a value to build on. “We are confident that this trend will not only continue, but that it will intensify, also in the course of the federal political situation,” said the FDP leader. The FDP is also betting that satisfaction with the federal government and the traffic light parties will increase over the course of the year. The population will then notice that the federal government has gotten the country through the severe crisis better, said Hagen.
And then the focus will be more on state politics, said Hagen – and accused the CSU and Free Voters of having a bad record in energy, education and infrastructure policy, among other things. “Then we will have a debate in which it will be very uncomfortable for the government in Bavaria – and in which the FDP, which has convincing concepts on all these issues, will continue to improve.”
Among other things, the FDP parliamentary group decided on Thursday a comprehensive concept to boost housing construction in the Free State. Among the immediate measures required are faster digitization in construction management or the abolition of property transfer tax on the first owner-occupied home.