The buzzwords on the “Day of the FDP” are: discipline, precaution, resilience. Then flames and fireworks flicker.
“It’s the final countdown”: FDP President Thierry Burkart is preparing for the election campaign. (On the right: FDP Federal Councilor Karin Keller-Sutter.)
Thierry Burkart was later to say that it was important to him that it “really knocked and patted” at this party conference in Burgdorf in the canton of Bern. And so, a year before the elections, the FDP presented itself as a (re)armed party in every respect.