Overview
- Reinhold Würth told Focus he assumes the FDP will disappear in Stuttgart and at the federal level.
- He said he has often switched parties and would like to vote FDP but fears his vote would be lost if the party fails to clear the threshold.
- Recent polling places the CDU a few points ahead of the Greens, with the AfD behind and the FDP struggling to enter the Landtag.
- The March 8 vote will choose a successor to three-term Green minister-president Winfried Kretschmann, who is not running again.
- Würth expressed a preference for CDU leader Manuel Hagel as minister-president and expects a shift to a CDU–Green coalition.