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Munich / Mainz (dpa) - Free voter federal chief Hubert Aiwanger is hoping for a nationwide breakthrough in view of the predicted entry of his party into the state parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate.
«That is a very strong achievement.
People see the Free Voters more and more as a new down-to-earth, bourgeois party in all of Germany, ”said Aiwanger on Sunday evening about the Mainz result - according to initial projections, the Free Voters could move into the state parliament there for the first time.
This would mean that they would already be represented in the third state parliament after Bavaria and Brandenburg.
The goal is a nationwide breakthrough for Free Voters, said Aiwanger - especially at a time when the "large former people's parties" were more and more disappointed and made headlines with scandals.
"We want to become the new liberal-conservative force also at the federal level," said Aiwanger.
"Civil coalitions must be possible again."
Germany must be governed sensibly again instead of falling increasingly under the ideological wheels.
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The Free Voters also run for the Bundestag election and hope not only for their first entry into parliament, but also for a joint government with the Union and FDP.
In the last two federal elections, however, the free voters with 1.0 percent each clearly failed because of the five percent hurdle.
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