Sunday 19th December 2021
Previously foreign policy spokesman
FDP gets new general secretary
Volker Wissing, previously Secretary General of the FDP, takes over the Ministry of Transport. According to the media report, there is therefore a change in personnel at his party post: The foreign policy spokesman for the parliamentary group, Bijan Djir-Sarai, is to take over the office.
According to a media report, the Bundestag member Bijan Djir-Sarai is to become the new FDP general secretary. According to information from the “Bild am Sonntag” from the FDP leadership, party leader Christian Lindner wants to propose the change to the board on Monday.
With Djir-Sarai, a politician with Iranian roots would become part of the FDP party leadership. According to “BamS” information from the party leadership, the Liberals consider highly qualified immigrants to be a new target group. Like the FDP, they would advocate a tolerant society and willingness to perform.
A new appointment has become necessary because the previous Secretary General Volker Wissing has taken over the Federal Ministry of Transport. The 45-year-old Djir-Sarai from Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia has so far been the foreign policy spokesman for the parliamentary group.
According to his own statements, he was born in Tehran and studied business administration in Cologne. In his home country, Djir-Sarai was a deputy district administrator as a local politician and a professional head of the district administration. In 2009 he moved into the Bundestag for the first time. According to “BamS” he has two small children and is considered to be middle-class and liberal-conservative.