The FDP is pushing a neo-liberal agenda, pledging tax cuts, health and labour market reforms.
After 11 years in opposition, the FDP is desperate to get back into government.
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In the meantime, FDP analysts are not expecting much when they report earnings on May 7.
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The FDP is the closest and longest-standing representative of pro-market liberalism in German politics.
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Whether Mr Westerwelle will take the rap for the FDP's electoral setbacks is also unclear.
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The gainers were the three smaller opposition parties: the FDP, the Greens and the ex-communist Left Party.
The FDP would sweep away a thicket of tax rates, leaving just three: 10%, 25% and 35%.
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The CDU and FDP vow to relieve these ailments but there is a big difference between them.
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Mrs Merkel hopes to get enough votes to replace the SPD with the pro-market Free Democrats (FDP).
Furthermore, the realities of German coalition building means that the FDP's political leverage will be fairly limited.
They know what's coming and still they are avoiding the SPD and flocking to the free-market FDP.
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Or the vote could result in an old-fashioned coalition between the CDU and the liberal Free Democrats (FDP).
The FDP took in only 1.8% of the votes, dipping from 7.6% in the last election in 2006.
Yet Hans-Dietrich Genscher, an august former FDP foreign minister, has hinted that it did not go far enough.
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In both states the FDP risks falling short of the 5% threshold needed to remain in the legislature.
The MEP, a leading member of the Free Democrats (FDP), allegedly failed to source the 227-page thesis properly.
At the closing bell, FDP is up about 3.3%, while DV is trading flat on the day Tuesday.
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Angela Merkel, who looks likely to be re-elected as chancellor, would prefer to govern with the liberal FDP.
At the closing bell, FDP is off about 1.6%, while AMD is off about 2.8% on the day Wednesday.
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But the FDP's shellacking in Berlin is a setback for the anti-bail-out camp.
The FDP, which reluctantly gave up the idea of further tax cuts, vetoed increases in income and consumption taxes.
It is not elated by the recovery of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), the junior partner in her coalition.
But on January 18th the FDP came close, taking 16.2% of the vote in a state election in Hesse.
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Up to a point, Mrs Merkel may welcome them: the FDP's 2009 triumph came largely at the CDU's expense.
Greater trauma awaits the FDP, which may be so weakened that it can no longer furnish coalitions with majorities.
But the exceptionally good result for the pro-market, liberal FDP should strengthen Mr Westerwelle's bargaining power in a new coalition.
This was the fate of Ludwig Erhard in 1966, when an earlier coalition of CDU, CSU and FDP abandoned him.
Worried about losing votes, some conservative politicians are already promising to defend the current system's basic structure against the FDP's agenda.
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