Monday, December 20, 2021
Djir-Sarai should get a job
Lindner proposes a new FDP general secretary
The General Secretary of the Liberals has moved to the head of the Federal Ministry of Transport. The Iranian-born MP Djir-Sarai is to be the successor to Volker Wissing.
The Bundestag member Bijan Djir-Sarai is to become the new General Secretary of the FDP. Party leader Christian Lindner proposed the 45-year-old on Monday to the party committees as the successor to Volker Wissing, who has switched to the cabinet as Federal Minister of Transport. Djir-Sarai was most recently an external expert in the FDP parliamentary group and chairman of the NRW regional group there. Djir-Sarai is to be officially elected to office at the federal party conference next spring.
Djir-Sarai was born in 1976 in the Iranian capital Tehran. He passed his Abitur in Grevenbroich and studied business administration in Cologne. He joined the FDP in 1996 and was elected to the Bundestag for the first time in 2009. Djir-Sarai describes his main focus of work in the Bundestag as “prudent foreign policy, genuine common European security policy, digitization of state structures”.
The new General Secretary will play an important role in profiling the content of the FDP. Party leader Lindner had already announced that after his move to the head of the Federal Ministry of Finance he would rather hold back from party political profiling actions – he now sees this task with the Bundestag parliamentary group and party representatives outside the federal government.