More women in leadership positions and more female elected officials, that's what the FDP wants. But they want to avoid a rigid quota. That is why the FDP now introduces so-called target agreements. "Where there are already many women, the target agreement can be particularly ambitious.Otherwise, once women have been recruited as members," said the designated Secretary-General Linda Teuteberg in an interview with the "editorial network Germany".
The target agreements were decided on Thursday by the party executive. Teuteberg is to be elected at the beginning of the new party congress to the new General Secretary and thus follow Nicola Beer, which leads the FDP as a leading candidate in the European elections in late May. Party leader Christian Lindner puts himself there again for election.
Women's share in the FDP has long been very low
The model has the advantage of being able to respond flexibly and individually to the local conditions, said Teuteberg. But she was not afraid to be considered a quota woman, she said on a similar question. The small proportion of women has been driving the FDP for some time, only just over one-fifth of the almost 65,000 party members is female.
The Bavarian FDP had recently decided on a state party convention to implement a "target agreement": So the candidate lists in the first two places for the election of the Bundestag and state parliament are to be filled equally with a man and a woman. In addition, the Bavarian FDP had agreed that the proportion of women in the offices of the party should rise to one-third.