Dresden (dpa/sn) - The Free Voters (FW) in Saxony see themselves at a further disadvantage in the election campaign for the state elections on September 1. The main reason for this is the fact that they were not invited to the election forums of the Saxon State Center for Political Education. The state center bases the invitation primarily on poll results, the presence of parties in the Saxon state parliament and the Bundestag and the principle of graduated equal opportunities.
"This suggests that there is still an equal opportunity in the wording. However, we cannot see that," emphasized FW head Thomas Weidinger. Rather, the State Center for Political Education is sticking to decades-old selection criteria and completely ignoring the fact that society has changed dramatically. "You only have to ask yourself why an FDP is invited to the election forums even though it has become almost insignificant in Saxony. Just because it sits in the Bundestag? That is incomprehensible."
