The Free Democratic Party (FDP) is one of the two smaller parties in the State of North-Rhine Westfalia (NRW), where I live. (The other small party is The Greens (Grüne)).The FDP is in the opposition role in North-Rhine Westfalia (NRW) at the moment, together with the other big German party, the CDU.
Party leader of the FDP in the state of North-Rhine Westfalia is Mr. Andreas Pinkwart, a not very known politician, even to State residents.
Leader of the party in the State parliament is Mr. Ingo Wolf. He shares the same fate, i.e. not to be very known to State citizens outside of his party.
The upcoming State election for the North-Rhine Westfalian parliament will take place on Sunday, 22nd May, 2005.
In the 2000 elections, the FDP gained 721,558 votes. That's 9.8 % of all votes.
The writing on the election poster says:
Support (the education of) our children,
don't spend money on hard coal subvention.
Well, I should come to talk about the hard coal situation later.
