The CSU is concerned with the mask affair.
A press conference was announced at short notice for Sunday noon.
What will Markus Söder announce there?
Update from March 21, 10:48 a.m.:
The CSU leadership around Markus Söder wants to draw extensive conclusions from the mask affair.
There will be a press conference with the Bavarian Prime Minister at 1 p.m. (see first report).
From CSU circles it was reported that Söder wanted to present a comprehensive package of measures to make a clear cut.
There will be hard and clear rules for the future.
Consequences of the mask affair - Söder-PK announced at short notice: First details leaked in advance
Update from March 21, 10.14 a.m.:
The CSU politician Alfred Sauter will give up his party offices today.
The
Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation
wants to have found
out from the political environment of Sauter.
He will therefore make a personal statement in the course of the day.
At 1 p.m. there will be a press conference with party leader Markus Söder and general secretary Markus Blume on the "fundamental consequences of the misconduct of individual elected officials" (see first report).
Consequences of the mask affair - press conference announced at short notice: What is Markus Söder announcing?
First report from March 21, 9:13 a.m
.: Munich - The CSU leadership wants to draw extensive conclusions from the mask affair.
Prime Minister * and party leader Markus Söder * and General Secretary Markus Blume want to give a short press conference in Munich on Sunday afternoon (1 p.m.).
In the morning the CSU invited them.
It is about "fundamental consequences of the misconduct of individual elected officials" - which this could be initially remained open.
CSU mask affair: Short-term press conference with Söder and Blume announced
It is expected that the Alfred Sauter case will also be dealt with in concrete terms.
The mask affair * is now also being investigated against the member of the state parliament and former Bavarian Minister of Justice.
The party and parliamentary group leaders therefore threatened the 70-year-old with consequences, such as being expelled from the parliamentary group, and asked him to resign from his party positions.
The latter will also happen, party circles said at the weekend - initially
Focus Online
and the
Augsburger Allgemeine
reported this.
However, there was initially no official confirmation.
Mask affair: Investigations against Bavaria's ex-Justice Minister Sauter
Mask affair: Corruption investigations against Sauter - allegations against Nüßlein
The Munich Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating Sauter because of an initial suspicion of corruption - he has rejected the allegations about his lawyer.
The investigations are in connection with the purchase of Corona * protective masks by the state as well as in connection with allegations of corruption against the member of the Bundestag * Georg Nüßlein, who, like Sauter, also comes from the Swabian district of Günzburg, who has since left the CSU.
Because of possible "conflicts of interest", the CSU member of the Bundestag Tobias Zech announced his withdrawal from the Bundestag on Thursday. * The resignation has nothing to do with the affair over Corona protective masks *.
Rather, the background is allegations of having merged mandate and entrepreneurial activities.
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