Aiwanger scoffs at Söder's "tips" – things are crunching in the Bayern coalition. Since citizens voted no to a wind farm in Mehring, the mood in the coalition now seems icier than ever before.

The squabble surrounding the wind farm is just one of several symptoms that indicate a tense relationship between the CSU and the Free Voters. Aiwanger's main motto seems to be to make his party's plan to make economic policy his main motto.