According to the will of the FDP, Federal Chancellors should only be allowed to rule for two full terms in the future.
This provides for a resolution of the digital federal party congress for the election program.
Since an extension of the electoral terms from four to five years is required there, a chancellor would in future have to give up the office after a maximum of ten years.
It was refused to introduce a time limit for Bundestag mandates.
A corresponding application provided for uninterrupted membership for a maximum of three full electoral terms or 15 years.
Regarding the term of office of chancellors, the first parliamentary managing director of the FDP parliamentary group, Marco Buschmann, said on Sunday: “Regardless of his historical successes, Konrad Adenauer was in office too long. In the end, he made no further progress and left a heavy reform backlog in Germany. ”This was also the case with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and it also applies to Angela Merkel (all CDU). "If we find that in Germany it happens again and again that heads of government have been in office for too long and that too few reforms are initiated, then it is wise to change the rules of the game."
Buschmann rejected a time limit for Bundestag mandates, arguing that a member of parliament changes from election period to election period. In this respect, there is no such thing as “being burned out”. In addition, MPs are on average only about eight years in the Bundestag. The other is "exceptional personalities".