The previous parliamentary managing director of the CSU, Tobias Reiß, is to become the new state parliament vice-president according to his parliamentary group’s wishes. The 55-year-old prevailed in a vote at the CSU parliamentary group meeting on Friday against the previous incumbent Karl Freller and the former Bavarian Minister of Social Affairs Carolina Trautner.
According to the parliamentary group, the man from Upper Palatinate was elected with an absolute majority in the first round of voting: 45 MPs voted for Reiß, 18 for Trautner and 16 for Freller. A total of 81 votes were cast, with two abstentions.
The CSU had already proposed Ilse Aigner as state parliament president again. The election of Aigner and the vice president is the central point of the constitutive session of the new state parliament on Monday.
“Listening to what concerns people, what they expect from politics and being tougher in the confrontation with enemies of democracy: That is our task in the new legislature and also my understanding of the office of state parliament vice-president,” said Reiß after his free speech. “Challenging disputes await us, which we must fight in the spirit of democracy.” The CSU is and remains “the glue for the cohesion of society”.