Enlarge image
Ulrike Scharf, chairwoman of the Bavarian Women's Union
Photo: Peter Kneffel / picture alliance / dpa
In only ten of 46 Bavarian direct electoral districts, women are standing for the CSU in the federal election in autumn.
If all candidates were to win their direct mandate in Bavaria with a similar result as in 2017, the proportion of women in the CSU state group in the coming legislative period would be 22 percent.
It is currently 16 percent.
Party leader Markus Söder had announced equal participation of women "in the entire party".
The chairwoman of the Women's Union (FU) Bavaria, Ulrike Scharf, demands in SPIEGEL: “The question must not be asked whether the CSU Bundestag list will have equal representation!
Our politicians for the Bundestag must represent society! «
Söder had declared that he was worried about the three CSU ministers in the federal government, that the party in Berlin had too few women in responsibility.
As the top candidate for the federal election, Alexander Dobrindt, head of the CSU regional group in parliament, is now talking about another man.
In addition, several CSU men from Munich have to secure their mandate via the state list, as the current low polling values of the Union make their return to the Bundestag via direct mandate unlikely.
"Only a list that consists of equal parts of women and men corresponds to our claim to be a modern, open and equal people's party," says Scharf.
The CSU has been struggling for a long time with the plan to get more women into office and management positions.
In 2019, the CSU base rebelled against an increase in the women's quota at the reform party conference.
At the time, Söder said that the party had no good effect, and that the CSU had to rely on the support of women for its success.
Scharf described the fact that the party congress rejected the initiative at the time as a "very bitter experience."
acl
