Party Congress: FDP elects new head of state

The Rhineland-Palatinate liberals have been busy weeks. It's about what the era after Volker Wissing looks like. Will the party congress and the election of the board bring more peace?

Behind the liberals in Rhineland-Palatinate there are weeks full of querels. Now the course has been set for the future. The chapter Wissing is finally over.The Rhineland-Palatinate FDP has chosen a woman to lead with Daniela Schmitt for the first time.The 52-year-old Minister of Economics was appointed at a party congress in Mainz as the successor of Volker Wissing, who had quit the party in November in the wake of the traffic lights in the fed…

For a place in the future leadership, the head of the NRW-FDP is now throwing his hat into the ring.

There's a race for the position of deputy party leader within the FDP. The focus is on the North Rhine-Westphalia state association: After European Parliamentarian Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann had already indicated interest in the position of deputy party leader at the federal level, according to a report in "Spiegel," NRW state leader Henning Höne now also wants to become party vice-chair. "So far, only people who are currently members of the …