that party is the free democrats, the fdp. >> talk of tax cuts, a key fdp issue, w was conspicuous by its absence. instead, they concentrated on other traditional positions like dernizing energy policy and reducing public debt. >> for more, let's bring in our political correspondent, terry martin. let's go back to what has happened to the f fdp in this ty state. how bad is it for the party? >> it is amazing. just when you think that things could not get worse for the fdp, they go from bad to even worse. it is shocking, really. the news of that broke juste -- during the party conference when the party leader was just gettttingp to speak. the timing, obviously, was not very good. they had been having major problems at the federal level for a couple of years now, ever since entering government as a junior coalilition party under chancellor merkel. now, they have this problem happening on a state level. they were ejected from a state parliament last year, just a couple of months ago. now, thehey h been ejected from a state government. the christian democrat leader of that sta government s