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Osnabrück (dpa) - After years in the opposition, the FDP is counting on regaining power after the federal election together with the CDU and CSU.
The Union's candidate for chancellor, Armin Laschet, was known to be a reliable negotiating and government partner, party leader Christian Lindner told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung. «This year there are good chances for us to be part of a modernization coalition. Armin Laschet is likely to do a lot differently than Angela Merkel. " Laschet governs as Prime Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia in an alliance with the FDP.
Lindner is skeptical of a possible traffic light coalition of the Greens, SPD and FDP in the federal government.
Above all, this fantasy serves to distract from a green-red-red possibility.
"When the going gets tough, the Greens would rather form a coalition with the Left Party and not with us," said the FDP leader.
"For us a coalition is not attractive in which we are only assigned the role of a corrective or a no-sayer."
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