Loss of power, personnel squabbles and money disappearing into thin air: there is a mood of crisis among the Christian Socialists. Suddenly everyone is looking at Horst Seehofer again.
The fact that the “Schanzer Nacht” is the focus of public attention is in the Ingolstadt CSU’s own interest. For many years, the party has been inviting people to the city theater during carnival season to dance and talk to people and political celebrities. “I’ve heard that this is one of the most beautiful balls in Bavaria – and therefore automatically in all of Germany,” piped the evening’s star guest, Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), last February.