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CSU-Aus: Instead of Seehofer and Söder - three women could soon be the most powerful Bavarians in Berlin

2021-11-29T09:54:10.931Z


How much does Bavaria have to say in federal politics in the future? After the CSU years, women may now be on the trigger - but there is little Free State to be found in the party leaders.


How much does Bavaria have to say in federal politics in the future?

After the CSU years, women may now be on the trigger - but there is little Free State to be found in the party leaders.

Munich / Berlin - Times are changing.

But at least the balance of power.

When asked about the most influential Bavarian politician in Germany, there would have been only one answer in the past four years: Markus Söder. As the smallest, but extremely vocal ruling party, its CSU has left little doubt that it also likes to turn the big federal political wheels - even if not always with success, see car toll. The three CSU federal ministers Horst Seehofer (inside), Andreas Scheuer (traffic) and Gerd Müller (development) could definitely have been mentioned in the seats. Or, purely in terms of protocol, Bundestag Vice-President Hans-Peter Friedrich.



Now the CDU and the CSU are relinquishing power.

Söder no longer has a say in the coalition committee.

The ministerial team also changes completely.

And now it tastes a bit like a real end for “Bavaria first” in Berlin: There are currently only four Bavarian politicians on the executive boards of the traffic light parties, five with good will.

And it literally gets “more colorful”.

Because depending on where the Minister carousel of SPD stops, the three most influential Bayern could be in Berlin in the future Bayer

inside

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For comparison: in its entire history, the CSU has only sent two “real” ministers to Berlin.

CSU is relinquishing power in Berlin, the Greens are removing Hofreiter from the list - now it's the women's turn

In any case, it is certain that with the departure of the CSU from the government coalition, politicians from Bavaria are no longer automatically at the levers of power in Berlin. Apart from the Federal Council, of course. And now the Greens have pushed Anton Hofreiter out of the cabinet plan amid a heated argument. If there are any ministers from Bavaria in the near future, it will most likely not be men. The women could take over. And they will - at least from Munich's point of view - come more from the periphery.

Only one woman from Bavaria is more or less certain to have a “minister”:

Claudia Roth

is currently

going to be Minister of

State for Culture at Ampel.

That goes well with the Augsburg resident who, in the 1980s, managed the band Ton Steine ​​Scherben, which is still revered in left-wing circles, and studied theater studies.

However, one way or another, Roth would have been given a high office: She was recently re-elected as Vice President of the Bundestag for the second time.

And, strictly speaking, the Minister of State for Culture is only the “Federal Government Commissioner”.

Bavaria in Berlin: SPD could send two ministers from the Free State to the traffic light cabinet

However, two more women could still get into the “real” cabinet via SPD tickets: MP

Bärbel Kofler

from the Traunstein constituency is traded as a candidate for the post of development minister - and the foreign politician recently underpinned the ambitions, at least indirectly, with plenty of tweets on the subject International affairs, human rights and business: From the supply chain law to women's rights in Turkey to the Peng Shuai case in China. Although Kofler has not rediscovered these topics for himself - only the number of tweets has increased a bit.

And then there is a politician from Lower Franconia, who could unexpectedly jump to one of these days extremely essential post: The SPD is looking for a health minister - or a health minister.

According to reports, the omnipresent media expert Karl Lauterbach is not too well liked by Olaf Scholz.

A comparatively obvious alternative would be

Sabine Dittmar

: The 57-year-old is, after all, the official health policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group.

Dittmar last opened the debate on the Infection Protection Act in the Bundestag.

And the day before, she had also publicly presented the traffic light plans.

Greens, SPD, FDP: Little Bavarian participation in the party leaders - Grötsch soon almost alone on a wide field?

The fact that, from a Bavarian perspective, only women have a say in the Berlin government coalition would be an exaggeration - at least a little. Finally, there are also the party executives who, like Söder and his CSU so far, always have their fingers in the game when it comes to sensitive issues. But here the Bavarian participation is thin: Uli Grötsch - Bavarian SPD top candidate in the federal elections - is a member of the SPD executive committee. With Martin Hagen, the climate expert Lukas Köhler and Hagen's predecessor Daniel Föst, the FDP has three Upper Bavaria on the board. However, with 34 assessors alone, it is a real mammoth body in which one vote does not count too much.

And the greens?

Jamila Schäfer from Munich is even party vice-president - for now.

After her coup by winning a direct mandate in the federal election, Schäfer does not want to run for re-election.

Another Bavarian woman, Katharina Schulze, is represented in the subordinate party council.

Even politically very ambitious.

But Schulze does not want to run for party leadership after the birth of her first child.

One reason: partner Danyal Bayaz became Minister in Baden-Württemberg in 2021 - a political balancing act between Stuttgart, Munich and Berlin would be too big in the couple's view.

Greens re-elect party leadership - the first Bavarian minister came from the SPD in 1966

It is possible that this power table will shift again: the SPD and the Greens will soon be re-electing their party leaders. And it is also clear that regional interests are not only represented at government level. Well over 100 MPs from the Free State will articulate the interests of their voters in the new Bundestag, in plenary, in committees and in the parliamentary groups. But what Söder called “bringing money to Bavaria” in the fall, amid great uproar, is for the time being a thing of the past, at least for the CSU.

There are now new perspectives for Bavarian politicians. The SPD and the Greens pay close attention to gender parity in the cabinet. In the end, three Bavarian women could get jobs. For comparison: in its entire history, the CSU has only sent two women to Berlin to join the cabinet: Gerda Hasselfeldt at the end of the 80s, the beginning of the 90s and Ilse Aigner from 2008 to 2013. Of course, there were also a few "commissioners" - most recently Daniela Ludwig as drug commissioner and Dorothee Bär as state minister for digital.

Incidentally, the first woman from Bavaria as Federal Minister also came from the ranks of the SPD.

Käte Strobel from Nuremberg was Minister for Health and Family Affairs from 1966 to 1972.

A quote attributed to her reads: "Politics is much too serious a matter to be left to men alone." (

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Source: merkur

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