In the eagerly awaited reshuffle of the Bavarian cabinet, Prime Minister Markus Söder wants to name the new ministers at the meeting of the CSU parliamentary group on Wednesday. From Söder’s environment it was said that the final decisions would only be made immediately before the start of the meeting. So far it is unclear how many cabinet members are to be replaced and whether there could also be changes in the ministries themselves.
At 1 p.m. Söder then wants to present his new ministers to the state parliament and have them officially appointed there. New ministers would then have to be sworn in. Anyone who is already a member of the cabinet does not have to take the oath again.
There had been repeated speculation in recent weeks about the reorganization of the Bavarian cabinet. It was said that Söder wanted to wait until the current omicron wave in Bavaria had passed its peak.
With the personnel restructuring, Söder wants to create new momentum within the party. In the polls, the CSU is around 35 to 36 percent and thus still behind the poor result of the 2018 election.
In CSU circles, construction and transport minister Kerstin Schreyer, science minister Bernd Sibler, family minister Carolina Trautner and Europe minister Melanie Huml are mentioned as shaky candidates. Interior Secretary Gerhard Eck could also lose his cabinet post. He had already announced that he no longer wanted to run in the state elections in autumn 2023.