Despite improving polls, CSU leader Markus Söder has committed his party to a tough federal election campaign. “The trend is good. But other majorities such as the traffic light may still have a chance to be realized. That is why we must not be reckless,” said the Bavarian Prime Minister on Saturday when the CSU compiled the lists for the Bundestag election in Max Nuremberg. Morlock Stadium. In order to be successful, the CSU must also inspire voters from other bourgeois parties.
Söder used his almost 30-minute speech to draw the first red lines for possible coalition negotiations after the election on September 26th. The implementation of the extended maternal pension is a basic condition for the participation of the CSU in government. “No matter who we govern with, but that is a condition,” he said. The CSU calls for older mothers like the younger ones to be credited with three instead of two and a half pension points per child. The CDU, however, recently prevented the CSU’s demand for a mother’s pension from being included when drawing up the Union’s electoral program. It should therefore be included in a separate CSU program for the federal election.
Söder also repeated the rejection of any tax increases, this would now be poison for the economy, which is currently recovering, after the corona pandemic. Instead, what is needed are competitive corporate taxes and the abolition of the solidarity surcharge for all people. In addition, Söder emphasized that the CSU would not support the FDP’s demand for the abolition of trade tax. The CSU stands on the side of the municipalities, for which tax revenues are of particular importance.
There are only ten women among the CSU candidates for the federal election
For the first time in its history, the CSU wants to run the Bundestag election with a list of candidates with equal representation for a Bundestag election. This means that a man and a woman should always be taken into account alternately when drawing up the list. The top candidate is the head of the regional group, Alexander Dobrindt. Digital Minister of State Dorothee Bär follows in second place, while third place should go to the Lower Bavarian CSU chief and Federal Minister of Transport, Andreas Scheuer. The first ten places go exclusively to members of the Bundestag who are already in office.
In contrast to other parties, the list of candidates at the CSU is of rather subordinate importance, as in earlier years the CSU candidates were able to assert themselves directly in the constituencies and were not dependent on a list position. After the CSU lost some direct mandates to the Greens in the last state elections, the importance of the list position is likely to grow, especially for applicants in the constituencies that are uncertain from the CSU’s point of view, such as Nuremberg and Munich.
The parity of the list is thus put into perspective. The CSU has already nominated its applicants in the 46 constituencies. This shows that the parity desired by Söder has not yet been achieved. There are just ten women among the candidates. In Munich, Augsburg, Middle Franconia and all of Lower Bavaria, not a single woman is nominated as a direct candidate. For the whole of Upper Bavaria there are just two. The pioneer here is clearly Lower Franconia, where three women and two men share the direct mandates.
According to the list of proposals, places 4 and 5 are for Federal Drug Commissioner Daniela Ludwig and Bundestag Vice President Hans-Peter Friedrich. The head of the Interior Committee, Andrea Lindholz, is scheduled for 6th place. This is followed by Vice Secretary General Florian Hahn and Vice Regional Group Leader Anja Weisgerber. 9th place should go to Stefan Müller, he had recently caused trouble because of an incorrectly specified part-time job as a board member. CSU health politician Emmi Zeulner is to go to 10th place.