Free Democratic Party
The Free Democratic Party (FDP) is a German liberal political party that advocates for citizen rights, individual self-determination, and market-based economic policy. Its official website promotes party membership, donations, and its policy positions on current national issues.www.fdp.de
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Sep 14, 2026
Daniel ManteyHOST
Und natürlich geht es los mit: „Och, wir haben hier was Bequemes und ganz Tolles.
Daniel ManteyHOST
Ich erinnere mich an den Verkauf von dem damaligen Minister, ähm, Lindner hier von der FDP, ja.
Daniel ManteyHOST
Damals, äh, wusste man noch, was die, dass die FDP überhaupt 'ne Partei ist.
Daniel ManteyHOST
Heute kriegst du ja schon Fragen, was, was die Abkürzung sein soll.
Daniel ManteyHOST
So, ähm, wo er vor den Kameras stand in irgendeinem Sommer erzählt hat: „Ja, was die Bundesregierung da macht mit dem digitalen Personalausweis und so.
speaker_1HOST
So it's quite, it's quite an interesting thing, 'cause for the, for the absolute longest time, there was something called the Traffic Light Coalition, which was where the, um, SDP, um...
speaker_1HOST
What was it? The Green Party and the Libertarian Party.
SidneyHOST
Yeah.
speaker_1HOST
Of course, you know, three colors of the traffic lights.
speaker_1HOST
But the thing is-
SidneyHOST
Yeah
speaker_1HOST
... is that the, the Libertarian Party has fell dramatically.
speaker_1HOST
They didn't even actually make...
Christopher CaldwellGUEST
And what happened specifically then was that the FDP went along...
Christopher CaldwellGUEST
The FDP is the Free Democratic Party.
Christopher CaldwellGUEST
That used to be a small party, but it was the kind of radical capitalist part.
Christopher CaldwellGUEST
Right.
Christopher CaldwellGUEST
And what happened specifically then was that the FDP went along...
Christopher CaldwellGUEST
The FDP is the Free Democratic Party.
Christopher CaldwellGUEST
That used to be a small party, but it was the kind of radical capitalist part.
Christopher CaldwellGUEST
Right.
Jan EichhornGUEST
The number one party in 2017 was still Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats by a small margin, but she still came first with her party amongst first-time voters.
Jan EichhornGUEST
You go to 2021, and the poll position was shared by Greens and the neoliberal FDP, like a really market liberal party.
Jan EichhornGUEST
There was a gender divide, by the way, young women in particular for the Greens, young men for FDP.
Jan EichhornGUEST
Fast forward to 2025, the two most successful parties with first-time voters in Germany The AFD in position two, but in position one, Die Linke, a far left, much more socialist party than the German Social Democrats have become.
Jan EichhornGUEST
So what we're basically seeing is young people who are really dissatisfied, like the rest of the public, but spoken to less.
François PicardHOST
But again, all of Europe is watching.
François PicardHOST
And by the way, next to vote before more regional elections in two weeks time in Germany is Sweden, where the opposition Social Democrats have picked up on the story of a Russian-born staffer of the far-right Free Democrats Party, who's reportedly been doing Moscow's bidding for years.
François PicardHOST
Her partner serves as liaison in the coalition that ties his party to the incumbent conservatives.
François PicardHOST
Magdalena Anderson of the Social Democrats, who's currently in the lead in the polls, calling for the far-right Free Democrats to be barred from future coalitions.
Constanze StelzenmüllerGUEST
That's a long way away from the 40 percentage points they used to get.
Constanze StelzenmüllerGUEST
And we're also probably looking at the first time that they have to form a three-way coalition with the Greens or the Liberals, because Jelinka didn't get back in and the AFD is so hard right that nobody wants to work with it.
Constanze StelzenmüllerGUEST
So that's where we are right now.
Constanze StelzenmüllerGUEST
We're discussing what coalition to form.
Constanze StelzenmüllerGUEST
And it's probably going to be a traffic lights with the Social Democrats and the leadership and the Greens and the Liberals tagging along.
Constanze StelzenmüllerGUEST
Was that complicated and extensive enough for you and your listeners? Yeah.
Jacob SchulzHOST
appropriately so.
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Constanze StelzenmüllerGUEST
I think we can at this point practically issue a cast iron guarantee that that's not going to happen because that would be humiliating for the Christian Democrats and because, frankly, they can't stand each other's guts anymore.
François PicardHOST
Politicos stating that the calls to tone down Germany's, what they call, Erinnerungskultur, or culture of remembrance, are nothing new.
François PicardHOST
Yet, this former member of the liberal FDP party employs the same sort of anti-academia language that we've heard in the magosphere over stateside.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The problem is that science is overshadowed and distorted by politics, that it is permeated and interwoven with political agendas.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Try, for example, to conduct climate research today with an open mind.
GülshaHOST
Ja,
JennyHOST
und auch noch FDP und BSW.
JennyHOST
Aber nimm uns nochmal ein
GülshaHOST
bisschen mit Sachsen-Anhalt, oder?
GülshaHOST
Nicht die AfD, hier sind die Options.
JennyHOST
Ja, also eigentlich, also quasi taktisch wählen wir sich fokussieren auf SPD und Grüne, weil die haben am ehesten Chancen.
JennyHOST
Ich glaube, die FDP hat es in keiner Umfrage über fünf Prozent geschafft.
JennyHOST
Deswegen will man die quasi gar nicht empfehlen.
speaker_0HOST
Yeah.
JakeHOST
And the FDP, the main classical liberal party, it's...
JakeHOST
Pretty much no support at all.
speaker_0HOST
I guess...
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