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CSU boss Markus Söder
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The CSU is going into the federal election campaign with its own program.
The 20-page document is entitled »The CSU Program.
Good for Bavaria.
Good for Germany. ”It is to be presented this Friday by CSU boss Markus Söder and CSU general secretary Markus Blume at a party board meeting at Gut Kaltenbrunn in Gmund am Tegernsee.
According to SPIEGEL information, the CSU is demanding, among other things, a dynamic commuter allowance and higher penalties for grandchildren fraudsters.
The minimum penalty for fraudsters who try to deprive senior citizens of their assets under false pretenses or alleged distress should be two years in the future.
In addition, the party wants to include the fight against anti-Semitism as a state goal in the Basic Law and the Bavarian Constitution.
A month ago, Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) and Markus Söder presented the union's common election program.
It says that Germany should be climate neutral by 2045, which can be achieved with the instrument of emissions trading.
In its additional solo program, the CSU is also committed to market-based pricing for CO2.
But one also knows about the associated additional burdens for "our commuters" in rural areas, it is supposed to say.
The CSU therefore proposes that the commuter allowance increase dynamically depending on the annual average CO2 price.
As a guideline, the following should be provided: 10 cents more at the petrol pump will mean 1 cent more commuter flat-rate in the future.
This time no "Bayern plan"
The CSU has already come up with its own ideas in previous federal election campaigns, which differ from the joint election program with the CDU.
This time, however, the party has apparently renounced the self-confident title "Bayern Plan".
CSU General Secretary Blume thinks that what is good for Bavaria is also good for Germany.
They wanted to turn "Bavarian interests into national political convictions."
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