It can’t really be due to a lack of success. The CSU won 45.9 percent of the votes in the European elections in the municipality of Kirchweidach in the Altötting district, 6.3 percentage points more than in Bavaria as a whole. Last year in the state elections, the Christian Social Union won 41.7 percent there, 4.7 points higher than its Bavarian result. In addition, the CSU local association was able to celebrate a few round membership anniversaries at its annual general meeting recently, once 60, twice 50 and once 25 years, as the Alt-Neuöttinger Anzeiger faithfully noted. And then the CSU voted on its own end in Kirchweidach.
This end was near, because Kirchweidach’s CSU members have proven wrong all those who believe, or at least claim, that politics is always just about offices and positions. That was what Kirchweidach was about, but not in the usual way. Because no candidate could be found among the 34 members for the office of local chairman, after the incumbent changed his place of residence and was no longer available. His previous deputy also apparently does not want to succeed him, because he is already serving as mayor.
Without a full board, the Kirchweidacher CSU threatened to dissolve itself in the Altötting district association, as per its statutes and without a locality. It would be better to merge with the local association in neighboring Halsbach, which the assembled members voted unanimously for after negotiations that apparently went well. This means that there will soon only be 22 CSU local associations in the 24 municipalities in the Altötting district, as there is already none in Tyrlaching, although the CSU also received 41.9 percent there in the European elections.
In the municipal list of Kirchweidach clubs and organizations, there will then only be one fully-fledged political grouping between all possible sections of the local FC, between the fan clubs of FC Bayern, 1860 Munich and Wacker Burghausen, the horticultural association, the poultry farmers, the music band, the Leonhardischützen and several others. The SPD, as the future Kirchweidach monopoly party, received 5.5 percent in the European elections.