FDP Epiphany meeting: search for course in the middle

The FDP is back in the parliamentary normal operation arrived - but much attention is not aroused. The want to change with the traditional three-king meeting in Stuttgart today.

By Ariane Reimers, ARD capital Studio, currently of Stuttgart

"service opposition," have you baptized yourself. The FDP wants to be constructive, nothing in principle to prevent it. A simple strategy for an opposition party because it attracts less attention. Nevertheless, the party is himself quite satisfied.

of Course, the Free Democrats, squinting with a little envy at the good survey of the values of the Green, but you will not get tired to emphasize that the stable plus/minus eight percent, calculated since the last election for the liberals in the polls, a success. Something that gave it actually, never - in spite of the Jamaica.

The decision against the government's involvement has shaped a whole year, the rhetoric of the Free Democrats. Forward defence was the name of the currency. Credibility of emit, the Image of the falls party store, in the "governance at any price". Not all of the FDP-trailer was able to convince the party.

An internal uproar there was, nevertheless, not more than a little Grumpy here and there. Especially the great dispute between the CDU and the CSU, and the rumpeligen the summer months seemed the Jamaica retreat and the "do not govern better legitimize as bad governance" later.