http://www.spiegel.de/international/germ...25747.html
It is the first time since the creation of the second republic that the liberterians will not be represented in parlament.
Traditionaly the liberterians in this country have been strong allies to the conservative wing in politics, with their policies being very buisness friendly but hardly having any kind of platform on social issues, even despite having had a homosexual leader of the party. The conservatives in this country have more and more taken over the buisness friendly program into their political agendas, leaving the liberterians to run on a platform that hardly is theirs anymore.
Curiously, at the same time in Austria a liberterian party was elected into the parlament for the first time "Neos" A new party whos members are vastly young and which runs mostly on social issues such as a strickt seperation of religion and state.
My question is: Is it time for liberterian parties to losen up the ties which conect them so deeply with conservatives (buisness friendly politics) and to run more on social issues which would gain them more votes from traditionaly leftwing voters in order to survive since conservatives have taken buisness friendly agenders as part of their policy plan?
Quote:Voted out of parliament in September, Germany's business-friendly Free Democratic Party is in the grips of an existential crisis. It has laid off 500 employees and faces an extremely uncertain future.
It is the first time since the creation of the second republic that the liberterians will not be represented in parlament.
Traditionaly the liberterians in this country have been strong allies to the conservative wing in politics, with their policies being very buisness friendly but hardly having any kind of platform on social issues, even despite having had a homosexual leader of the party. The conservatives in this country have more and more taken over the buisness friendly program into their political agendas, leaving the liberterians to run on a platform that hardly is theirs anymore.
Curiously, at the same time in Austria a liberterian party was elected into the parlament for the first time "Neos" A new party whos members are vastly young and which runs mostly on social issues such as a strickt seperation of religion and state.
My question is: Is it time for liberterian parties to losen up the ties which conect them so deeply with conservatives (buisness friendly politics) and to run more on social issues which would gain them more votes from traditionaly leftwing voters in order to survive since conservatives have taken buisness friendly agenders as part of their policy plan?
