One word regarding the FDP. With Lindner gone and the FDP out of the Bundestag and most state parliaments, the party needs to decide whether it wants to elect a leader with a more comprehensive understanding of what liberalism means.
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I don’t think this needs saying, but Kubicki’s AfD light won’t be it. There is no political space for this either. Ridiculous he would even entertain running after the course they were on under his deputy leadership crashed the party into irrelevance.
Kubicki is probably the closest German politics has to a Trumpian figure. Old, scandal-prone, indisciplined, “entertaining”, opportunistic and somewhere on the ideological spectrum between very rightwing and radical right. If the FDP sees him as the answer, they are asking the wrong questions.
In many ways he would be continuity Lindner, but worse. Hope the party decides to go with a younger leader with some ideas instead. There are plenty of decent candidates.
Lindner leaves politics, probably for a lucrative new job in business (something flashy with fast cars or AI one might assume), leaving his party in shambles. Few words of regret or apologies from him. As his statement on TV shows, it was all about Lindner, for Lindner.
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