By Katja Auer and
Christian Bernreiter is currently still district administrator in the district of Deggendorf.
(Photo: Armin Weigel/dpa)
Bavaria’s Prime Minister presents his new cabinet – who has to go, who can stay? The names at a glance:
- Former Secretary General Markus Blume replaces Science Minister Bernd Sibler.
- His office will be taken over by Stephan Mayer, member of the Bundestag.
- The previous district administrator of Deggendorf, Christian Bernreiter, takes over the office of building minister, replacing Kerstin Schreyer.
- Social Affairs Minister Carolina Trautner will be replaced by former Environment Minister Ulrike Scharf.
- Sandro Kirchner becomes the new State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior, replacing Gerhard Eck.
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.