The next state parliament will have a different face. At least, or much more so, when it comes to the deputies that the Munich district sends to the Maximilianeum. And that’s good. For too long the same MPs, who had become slack over the years, sat in parliament. After the SPD and CSU, the FDP is now also considering new people. In contrast to the newcomers from the SPD and CSU – Florian Schardt, Christine Himmelberg and Maximilian Böltl – Marco Deutsch at 60 is not a fresh candidate; The lawyer and media entrepreneur from Grünwald stands for rejuvenation – despite his position as chairman of the Liberal Seniors in Upper Bavaria: Helmut Markwort, the previous member of the district FDP, is 85.
But age was probably the least reason to give the largely unknown media entrepreneur precedence over the prominent media maker. Rather, it may have played a role that Markwort, who is at home in Munich himself, has hardly been in the constituency in the past four years and has also given little thought to its interests. No real surprise: the earlier one FocusIn 2018, the editor-in-chief only drove to the state parliament as a free rider on the district ticket. Because the liberals in Munich-Land were suddenly blank after Tobias Thalhammer’s move to the CSU, they left the pensioners hired as a PR stunt to collect votes for the party.
This generosity is expected to come to an end in 2023. In the district of Munich, the liberals can count on enough potential voters to have their own man elected to the state parliament – at least via the list. The two direct mandates, on the other hand, are decided between the candidates from the CSU and the Greens: Kerstin Schreyer and Maximilian Böltl on the one hand, Claudia Köhler and Markus Büchler on the other. At least three of them can also be considered fresh in state politics.