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Kühnert: CSU scandals are noticeably increasing
SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert in Berlin. Photo: Annette Riedl/dpa
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Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder “only runs the Free State as a part-time job” – SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert practices this harsh criticism with a view to recent events in the CSU.
After the resignation of CSU General Secretary Stephan Mayer, SPD General Secretary Kevin Kühnert raises serious allegations against CSU boss Markus Söder.
“A good year before the state elections, the CSU scandals are noticeably increasing. Markus Söder is more concerned with managing his CSU and only leads the Free State as a part-time job,” said Kühnert of the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post”. Söder is said to be an instinctive politician. “These days, the impression is that the opposite is the case.” Mayer’s resignation was “just the new sad climax of a long list of wrong appointments by Markus Söder”.
Kühnert recalled the mask deals by Union politicians at the beginning of the corona pandemic and the former Minister of Transport Andreas Scheuer (CSU), “who, as Minister of Transport, left the taxpayers a scandalous grave of billions and was still not withdrawn from the government by Söder”. The attacks by ex-Secretary General Mayer on a journalist cannot simply be described as bad style, “but as what they are: attacks on press freedom,” said the SPD politician.
Mayer announced his resignation as Secretary-General on Tuesday evening after just over two months in office. The 48-year-old named health reasons in a written statement. At the same time, however, he admitted that, in retrospect, a “possibly” inappropriate choice of words was given to a “Bunte” journalist.