"The CSU needs more ideas": Bavaria's JU boss calls for more initiative, especially from the parliamentary group
Created: 01/11/2022, 10:09 AM
By: Marcus Mäckler, Mike Schier, Christian Deutschländer
October 2021: Markus Söder during the state assembly of the Junge Union Bayern next to Christian Doleschal, member of the European Parliament and chairman of the Junge Union Bayern.
© Armin Weigel / dpa
Bavaria's head of the Junge Union calls for more initiative.
In the state elections in 2023, it is important to rejuvenate the state parliamentary group.
Is the “draft horse” Markus Söder still lame?
Munich - The CSU has a restless start to the new year.
The mood in Bavaria is irritable, the polls are bad, all government offices in Berlin have been lost.
What has to change?
Münchner Merkur
spoke to Christian Doleschal (33), the head of the Junge Union
.
The once very Söder-friendly association now allows itself to object.
Doleschal, a member of the European Parliament, demands more impulses, including from the parliamentary group.
How is the mood with the 32 percent party CSU?
Christian Doleschal:
The mood is always good, but the situation has to get better.
Not everything is going well, otherwise we wouldn't be 32 percent in the polls.
The CSU must step up at all levels.
We have to fight back trust.
For Corona policy, that means: We should now reconcile the country as a people's party, bring it together and find compromises.
And then, in the course of the year, hopefully after Corona, set new impulses for Bavaria's politics.
Junge Union and CSU boss Markus Söder: "The team game has to get stronger"
At the last state assembly, angry JUers deleted a passage that praised Markus Söder as a “draft horse”.
Is the draft horse still lame?
Doleschal:
No.
Markus Söder is our number 1, he leads Bayern well.
He has proven that he listens, takes the mood seriously.
We also had another four hours of discussion with us.
The team game has to become stronger, but that also means: More ideas are needed from all levels and from all working groups of the CSU.
For Bavaria, that also means from the parliamentary group and in the cabinet.
Are the CSU MPs too quiet for you?
Doleschal:
The parliamentary group is now facing a closed meeting.
There has to be a lot of impetus if 2022 is to be a year of content positioning.
We can make progress in several areas: We have to think more about the future of rural areas - we used to be better there.
And we have to take better care of the core brand of the CSU.
Take stable finances, for example: In order to cushion the corona crisis, we had to dig deep into our reserves.
So: Get out of debt, also in Bavaria?
Doleschal:
Absolutely.
Thanks to solid finances, we were able to invest more heavily and stabilize more than other countries.
But now we have to get back to black zero as quickly as possible, preferably in 2023.
CSU: Junge Union plans to rejuvenate the parliamentary group
In the CSU there is whispering about a cabinet reshuffle.
Who could the Junge Union seriously offer for high offices?
Doleschal:
With Judith Gerlach we have a strong, young minister in the cabinet, we have good people in Berlin and in local politics: the Junge Union has more mayors than the Greens in Bavaria.
The benchmark for the entire cabinet must be simple: be able to govern Bavaria well and set federal political accents.
In the state elections in 2023, the state parliament group needs to be rejuvenated: In autumn 2023, 27 of 84 CSU members will be over 60 years of age.
Your JU Bayern will be 75 tomorrow. A little more momentum in your own shop would also be welcome, wouldn't it?
Doleschal:
We also do not exclude ourselves from the criticism.
There has to be more and more.
A youth association that is open to discussion naturally suffers especially when Corona makes personal meetings almost impossible.
But last year we tackled a generation change internally, 52 of 107 district chairmen are new.
They want to accelerate.
I am not worried about the future.
Interview: cd / mik / mmä
