People & Politics | A Long and Winding Road

Throughout the decades,Free Democrats from Walter Scheel to Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Otto Lambsdorff could only dream of support on this scale.The parliamentary elections saw the FDP – the largest of Germany’s small parties – post its best result in the history of the Federal Republic. It was largely thanks to the efforts of 47-year-old Guido Westerwelle. He’s been leading the party for nine years and it’s never done better. But what sort of a person is he?