New, strict rules of conduct are intended to curb CSU MPs in the future, and the party executive has approved them.
Markus Söder sees the escape to the front as the only chance for a stumbling Union.
Munich - It takes Markus Söder to use the word, but at some point he does.
Each of these individual cases is a slap in the face for the majority of the MPs, says the CSU boss - for all those who wanted to serve the community.
“Individual cases”: The term, which some no longer really want to trust, is leaden in the room from then on.
For the CSU * it is the end of a tough week, Söder makes no secret of it.
The party's credibility is at stake, he said after Friday's board meeting.
One has to act.
The main reason for this is the affairs involving Georg Nüßlein and Alfred Sauter, which shook the party.
In the future, strict rules of transparency and behavior should act like an antidote.
The board decided unanimously, as Söder says.
CSU under fire: Söder relies on a ten-point plan and more transparency
It was a strange mood, report participants in the virtual round.
The affairs shot to the core of the CSU, as did the falling polls.
Nüßlein had no idea about his mask deals, they all knew about Sauter's marginal business acumen.
Last but not least, the ministers, whom Sauter repeatedly spoke to on behalf of customers.
Söder appeals to the group to take transparency seriously.
He later says that the ten-point plan is “a central measure of credibility for the future”.
In future, it says, all MPs and candidates should sign a declaration of integrity.
In addition, “full transparency should apply to additional income, and paid lobbying should be prohibited to MPs.
All of this is to be monitored by a compliance commission headed by ex-Justice Minister Winfried Bausback.
In the event of an offense, depending on the severity, it is even possible to be excluded from the party.
A lobby register is also planned in Bavaria.
CSU under fire: rough orientation to new rules for members of the Bundestag
All of this is very similar to the measures that the GroKo parliamentary group leaders agreed on in Berlin on Friday.
Interesting: According to this, MPs in the Bundestag will in future have to specify notifiable income to the nearest cent.
This includes all income over 1000 euros a month or - if you work all year round - 3000 euros a year.
Lecture fees are prohibited.
CSU General Markus Blume says that they want to orientate themselves in detail in Bavaria too.
Söder knows: Nothing can go wrong now.
He sees the whole Union at a crossroads.
Corona chaos, survey crashes and a massive loss of credibility * led to the "risk of a change in mood" in the election year, he says.
The question is no longer with whom, but whether the Union governs in the federal government.
"We have to learn to fight again."
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If that works out?
Markus Söder wants to teach the Union how to fight again.
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CSU under fire: Söder wants to be in “Red Bull mode” and warns of the upcoming elections
Already in the morning, Söder told his people on the board not to go into sackcloth now.
“We have to get out of chamomile tea mode and get back into Red Bull mode,” he says (by chance there are also a cup and a can in front of him).
He calls for staying strong even with the Corona course: "If you lose your nerve now, you lose the elections."
especially the Swabian Franz Pschierer, who called teachers “sacks” on Facebook.
The CSU vows that every member of parliament must adhere to the rules.
The Greens would like it to be sharper.
Parliamentary group leader Katharina Schulze has presented three bills.
She demands: Anyone who changes from government to business should observe a three-year waiting period.
The lobby register must disclose the influence of stakeholders on laws.
And MPs have to disclose additional income from the first cent.
“We want to illuminate the dark corners with a bright flashlight,” says Schulze.
But now the state parliament has to deliberate first.
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