With the new Minister of Construction Christian Bernreiter, Prime Minister Markus Söder has brought someone into the team who is reminiscent of Franck Ribéry: you never knew what he would do next.
Tuesday afternoon in the state parliament. The new minister has come to introduce himself to the Housing, Construction and Transport Committee. visions? First accents? He asks for an induction period, says Christian Bernreiter, 100 days, after which he can go into detail. For starters, he leaves it at just touching on the topics. Meanwhile, the audience can guess: What is the mission of the new Minister of Construction? the Augsburg General writes that Bernreiter, together with the new Science Minister Markus Blume, will “jab” the man whom the CSU fears most in the election campaign: Hubert Aiwanger. An excellent picture, the desired scenario of CSU boss Markus Söder is obvious: The physicist Blume steals the high-tech show from the Minister of Economics Aiwanger and the Bernreiter, who is strong in dialect, steals the voices of those who are more close to the citizen and down-to-earth wish, especially in Lower Bavaria, where both are at home.
Since Söder likes to compare the CSU with FC Bayern, it is forgivable to take this worn-out picture here and to remind you of the last wing tongs that were style-defining in Munich: Arjen Robben and Franck Ribéry, Robbery for short. If the CSU were really FC Bayern, their new wing pliers would be called Blumreiter or something similar, with Bernreiter having the role of Ribéry, with whom you never knew what he would do next on the football field: the role of the unpredictable. With the new building minister, the unpredictable is fed by the fact that a capable local politician is not automatically a capable state politician. And from the question of whether Bernreiter, as a district administrator in Deggendorf a little king, can subordinate himself to a prime minister, who also appears quite royal from time to time.
Housing, transport projects, everything is very bureaucratic, time-consuming. And expensive. He “didn’t bring any of his own money with him,” says Bernreiter, and downplays expectations a bit. He probably knows how difficult it will be to prove to the audience that Söder didn’t just bring him into the cabinet as an election campaign mascot for Lower Bavaria. Incidentally, FC Bayern’s mascot is a bear with almost the same name as the new building minister, just a little cuter: Berni.