As of: 05/03/2022 6:33 p.m
His tenure was short: CSU General Secretary Mayer resigned. As a reason, he gave health reasons in the statement that the CSU spread. Most recently, Mayer had come under massive pressure.
CSU General Secretary Stephan Mayer has resigned after only a short term in office. “For health reasons, I asked the party leader of the CSU today to release me from my job as general secretary,” Mayer said in a statement distributed by the CSU.
According to the “Bild” newspaper, Mayer also points out another possible reason for his withdrawal in the statement: “In a conversation with a journalist from the ‘Bunte’, which was conducted because of blatantly illegal reporting, I may have used a choice of words that I, in retrospect, did not agree with would consider appropriate. I deeply regret that.”
According to “Bild”, Burda-Verlag accuses Mayer of having threatened and blackmailed a reporter. “I will destroy you,” according to the report, Mayer said to the “Bunte” reporter on the phone.