Despite the break in the traffic light coalition, Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing wants to remain in office until the planned new election and is leaving the FDP. Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) asked him whether he was prepared to continue in office under the new conditions, said Wissing in Berlin. He thought about it and said yes to Scholz.
Wissing also announced that he wants to join the government as a non-party in the future. “I don’t want to be a burden for my party.” That’s why he informed party leader Christian Lindner that he was leaving the FDP. “I do not distance myself from the basic values of my party and do not want to join another party.” This is a personal decision that does justice to his idea of responsibility. “I want to stay true to myself.”
FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr had announced the evening before that all his party’s ministers wanted to submit their resignations to the Federal President. SPD General Secretary Matthias Miersch suggested that the FDP politician should remain in Scholz’s cabinet. At the beginning of November, Wissing spoke out in favor of the Liberals remaining in the coalition in a guest article for the FAZ.
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