FDP vice-president Wolfgang Kubicki has responded to a call for new elections by the CDU leader. He was responding to calls from Friedrich Merz to possibly hold new elections this fall.
"The fact that he now, in a touch of megalomania, wants to decide for himself when the Bundestag should be re-elected is quite embarrassing," said KubickI. Merz predicts the FDP will fail at the five percent hurdle in the next federal election.