The Free Democratic Party (FDP), meanwhile, nominated Hans-Peter Goetz, a Teltow lawyer, as its top candidate.
Carl Freybe later joined the FDP, running unsuccessfully in the Lower Saxony slate of candidates in the 1953 national election.
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The president of the organisation is the Bavarian environmental minister Otto Wiesheu (CSU), who took over from the FDP politician Jürgen Möllemann in 2003.
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The next three most popular parties were the CVP (20.2%), the FDP (20%) and the SPS (17.1%).
Carstensen was the CDU's candidate for premier of Schleswig-Holstein in the state election of 20 February 2005, but the coalition of the CDU and the Free Democratic Party (FDP) failed to obtain a majority by some 700 votes.
Minister-President Georg Milbradt was unable to form a government with his preferred coalition partner, the liberal FDP, but he was able to keep his office after entering into a grand coalition with the center-left (SPD).
The next three most popular parties were the SPS (21.1%), the FDP (10.1%) and the CVP (9.3%).
The Green Party and the FDP.The Liberals have announced they will support the SP's candidate for Leuenberger's seat, while the Swiss People's Party has announced it will put up its own candidate, likely either Jean-François Rime or Adrian Amstutz (Caspar Baader was mooted as a candidate, but declined).
14 seats in the local parliament are held by the CDU (Christian Democratic Union), 7 are held by the BI (local citizens' initiative), 4 by the SPD (Social Democrats) and one each by the FDP (Free Liberals) and the Greens.