Given a question and a context passage, generate the answer having the word or phrase from the context passage. Here, the answer should be a shortest continous span from the passage.
Q: Context: Cornelia Pieper (born February 4, 1959 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, nee Richter) is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP).
Question: What political party is Cornelia Pieper part of?
A:
free democratic party