At his first Board meeting as CSU-Chairman determines, Markus Söder, a new course and arranges presence obligations for members and delegates.
Munich – the chief place in the CSU, a pretty, but kind of outdated instrument of power: a bell, to open meetings, to call party members to order and to offer photographers a beautiful design. Markus Söder tinkles on Monday morning momentum: “Oh, seems to work.”
fits in his first Board meeting as CSU-Chairman of the bell in fact: The new boss of his CSU-tip short the ringing in the ears. He tightened the leadership style that announces to the at least. Before the party, friends and, later, in front of the press it demands more discipline from their own people. Two events annoyed him in the past ten days. It does not lead to permanent success, if you have to cancel a party because too few delegates to be there, and if you lose in the Landtag votes, because too few deputies were in the chamber, he says. Söder wants to organize a party to-day firmer, on digital to the vote, the Seating arrangement change, he wants to talk also about the presence of obligations in the Parliament. “Team spirit does not mean lack of discipline. Success comes only with dedication.“
shorter reins, he also takes the party Executive. The meetings of the Board, he is limited to a maximum of three hours. From now on, a new Seating order: Söder and his Deputy, even if it is only a Detail in the front, all the other members of the management Board with a view to him. The word from “frontal teaching” makes the round.
New CSU-personnel Surprise
With Wonder will be included in addition, a member of staff, which says something about Söders course: He exchanges the Vice-Secretary General of Daniela Ludwig (43) against Florian Hahn (44). Two upper Bavaria, two members of Parliament – and a Signal. Hahn was one of the most dedicated Söder supporters in upper Bavaria, what is his relationship to Horst Seehofer, and to the district Chairman, Ilse Aigner, a good deed. Söder’s recognition of such loyalties in upper Bavaria already in his two Cabinet formations 2018 unusual. The Minister Ulrike Scharf and Marcel Huber had to make way for young members like Michaela Kaniber, Kerstin Schreyer and Florian Herrmann advanced.
+ Florian Hahn will be the new Vice Secretary-General of the CSU.©Brouczek
Ludwig is also a member of the informal “Zugspitz circuit” – a loose coalition of young members of Parliament to Alexander Dobrindt. Söder is the opposite of the circle appears to be slightly more reserved.
According to Ludwig’s relief, the CSU Trio with Söder and the secretaries-General Markus flower and Florian Hahn is now back in male. Söder refers to the fact that he, the lawyer Carolin Schumacher to CSU-Executive occupations. It is, however, not a politician.
Deputy General Hahn is now tilling also, how in the Bundestag, foreign policy issues. He was going to turn straight into the Europe-Foreign and security policy “in the important debates,” says Hahn of our newspaper. Söder wants to talk to Ludwig “other tasks”. Internally, the chair of the women is called common-Union, the heuer is free. But there are already several Applicants.
the Content of Söder wants to set up the CSU wide, far beyond the asylum issue. Several working groups made up of state and Federal politicians to develop positions on the economy, pensions, the environment, and Agriculture, Digital, foreign policy and culture.
also read: valve will be CSU Vice-Secretary-General: “I want to reach the master tables” and Söders new Sound – a comment by mercury editor-in-chief George Anastasiadis.
