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Mainz (AP) - The Rhineland-Palatinate FDP canceled its digital state party conference on Saturday due to technical problems with the voting system.

The meeting will continue on another day, said state chairman Volker Wissing.

The focus should have been on the election of a new state executive.

But shortly after the meeting started at 10 a.m., there were initial problems with individual votes.

These could not be eliminated even after repeated attempts and session interruptions.

At around 1.30 p.m., the decision was made to end the meeting for Saturday.

The FDP relied on the "safe and certified system" Polyas.

"We trusted that it would work," said Wissing.

But apparently it is not possible to get the problem under control, he said after another interruption.

That is why the party congress presidium had made this decision.

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On Thursday evening, the technology was still working at an extraordinary party conference of the FDP.

At this meeting, which was also held digitally, the delegates approved the coalition agreement negotiated with the SPD and the Greens with a large majority.

In his speech at the beginning of the party congress on Saturday, Wissing sharply criticized the federal government's corona policy.

"For us it is unacceptable when a Chancellor describes basic rights as privileges," he said.

The federal government acted “haphazardly” in the pandemic.

The corona crisis revealed many problems that existed in Germany.

With a view to the federal election in September, Wissing, who is also Secretary General of the Federal FDP, underlined the Liberals' goal of having an important say in the formation of the next federal government.

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