FDP Candidate Calls for a “Bureaucracy Cut” at Saxony-Anhalt Campaign Finale

Lydia Hüskens, the FDP’s lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt, used the party’s campaign finale in Freyburg to call for a radical reduction in bureaucracy. She said the state had too many rules and guidelines below the level of laws and regulations, creating excessive regulation.

“Everything among them that is more than ten years old will be gone by the end of 2027. If the administration still wants to keep it, it will have to justify it individually,” Hüskens said. She described the proposal as a genuine “bureaucracy cut” combined with a reversal of the burden of proof for future rules.

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Everything among them that is more than ten years old will be gone by the end of 2027. If the administration still wants to keep it, it will have to justify it individually.

Hüskens also proposed limiting checks on the use of public grants to random inspections in no more than 5 percent of cases. She said less bureaucracy, better federal legislation, greater freedom for companies and improved infrastructure could provide businesses in the state with better operating conditions.

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Without the economy, everything is nothing.

FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki said, “Without the economy, everything is nothing.” He repeated the party’s demands for a return to nuclear power in Germany and lower electricity prices. Kubicki said German electricity costs were the world’s fourth-highest and the highest among G20 countries, damaging the country’s industrial base.

He pointed to plans by major U.S. companies to build small nuclear reactors on their own sites to supply artificial-intelligence centers. Kubicki also urged FDP supporters in Saxony-Anhalt to remain optimistic, saying 25 to 28 percent of residents either had not decided how to vote or had not disclosed their preference to pollsters. Recent polls put the FDP at 3 percent, below the 5 percent threshold needed to enter the state parliament.

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We can learn from this that major American companies are now planning to build small nuclear power plants on their own business sites, because otherwise they cannot guarantee the energy supply for AI centers.