A comeback for kingmaker: German FDP keeps options open for next govt


  • World
  • Sunday, 30 Apr 2017

Christian Lindner, chairman of the liberal Free Democratic Party FDP addresses the media in Berlin, Germany, March 14, 2016. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of Germany's Free Democrats (FDP) said on Saturday his party was confident of returning to parliament in September and eager to put its pro-business stamp on the next government - whether with Angela Merkel's conservatives or the Social Democrats.

In an interview with Reuters at a congress in Berlin to launch the centrist party's campaign for the Sept. 24 national election, FDP chairman Christian Lindner said its primary goal was to clear the 5 percent voter threshold needed to enter parliament again.

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