Ballot no. 6
FDP
Freie Demokratische Partei
Standing statewide
About the party
The FDP was founded in 1948. As a liberal party it emphasises personal responsibility, civil liberties and the free market, tends to prefer private-sector solutions to state regulation, focuses on education and digitalisation, and takes a rather restrictive line on migration. It has often governed federally as a coalition partner, most recently from 2021 to 2024, but missed the 5% threshold in 2025; in Berlin it briefly returned to parliament in 2016 and dropped out again in the 2023 repeat election.
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Lead candidate(s)
Source: Landesliste position 1, Amtsblatt für Berlin Nr. 36, 27 Aug 2026.
Result in 2023
4.6% of second votes (70,416 votes)
Source: Landeswahlleiterin Berlin, 12 Feb 2023 · Data as of 2026-09-11
On the 2026 ballot
69 direct candidates · 0 on district lists · 23 on the state list · 119 on BVV lists
Positions by theme
The same six themes and the same template as on the Berlin-agenda page: the party’s own chapter title, a neutral summary of that chapter, and a link into the original.
Housing & rent
All parties on this theme →Stadtentwicklung und Wohnen ↗p. 33–41
"Citizens build Berlin": a new founding era driven by many small owners, builders' groups and cooperatives rather than the state. Sell state land again via highest-bid auctions (with binding building deadlines), grow along the "settlement star" of rail axes, allow ~20% more floor area with an extra storey and a "10,000 roofs" programme, partly cancel inner-city allotments for housing, build far more than 5,000 homes at Tegel, and let city-owned companies focus on renovating their stock. On tenancy: keep the Mietspiegel-based system, restore the normal 20% cap, end the rent brake on re-lets, reject any rent cap or expropriation, abolish Milieuschutz areas and the pre-emption right, and shift from social housing to housing benefit.
Transport & mobility
All parties on this theme →Verkehr ↗p. 52–61
"Mobility is freedom": rewrite the Mobility Act for a fair coexistence of all modes and let each person choose how to travel. Big push for rail — 1–2 km of new U-Bahn every year (U8 Märkisches Viertel, U7 BER, U1 Ostkreuz, U5 to Tegel, U9 south and north, an express line Alexanderplatz–Marzahn), i2030 done by the late 2030s, fully automated driverless U-Bahn, a magnetic railway Alexanderplatz–Lichtenberg, and a third rail ring. On roads: finish the A100 to Storkower Straße and the TVO, extend the Tiergarten tunnel, keep Tempo 50 on main roads, back the "alliance against bollards and Kiezblocks", P+R hubs and smart parking. Also: mandatory arbitration before BVG strikes, and quality over cheap fares.
Migration & participation
All parties on this theme →Innen, Recht und saubere Stadt ↗p. 64–72
"Security is a foundation of freedom": more personnel and best equipment for police, judiciary and fire service, a binding renovation plan for stations, permanent visible police presence with more community officers, Kotti-Wache-style stations at crime hotspots and "security by design" (lighting, sightlines) with temporary video surveillance at risk spots. Keeps suspicion-independent checks at crime-burdened places but wants the criteria written into law, made public and regularly evaluated; rejects mass data-linking, predictive profiling and blanket data retention in favour of quick-freeze; abolishes the presumption rule in the anti-discrimination law; fast-track juvenile justice ("Neukölln model"), asset clawback against clans, merging the Berlin and Brandenburg Verfassungsschutz.
Climate & energy
All parties on this theme →Energie-, Umwelt- und Klimapolitik ↗p. 85–88
"Climate-neutral, yes — but above all cheap, reliable and innovative": supply security through back-up plants and storage is non-negotiable, climate action where it is cheapest, and private capital and market incentives instead of bans. Welcomes solar but rejects any solar obligation for new or existing buildings and any further tightening of building-energy standards; bets heavily on hydrogen (a Berlin–Brandenburg strategy and a privately run "hydrogen development park"), geothermal, small wind, smart meters and a defossilised district heating open to third-party waste heat. Strong focus on climate adaptation: sponge city, rainwater management, biotope network, street trees.
Education
All parties on this theme →Bildung ↗p. 4–12
"Mission Deutsch": extend compulsory schooling to a pre-school year in the kita with defined learning goals, mandatory language tests for all three-to-four-year-olds and holiday German classes for children who lack the language. Schools get autonomy over budgets and staff, 110% staffing, a one-year suspension of school bureaucracy, an excellence initiative making 10% of schools "lighthouse schools", an IT specialist per school, and an end to teacher civil-servant status. Gymnasien may return to G9; "pluralistic inclusion" brings special schools back alongside inclusion classes with a genuine parental choice; medium-term education vouchers, free school choice and the end of postcode catchments.
Summaries written 2026-09-11 in neutral wording from the documents linked in each row. They are not the parties’ own texts.
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