Premiere for the new CSU general: PK with Söder today – explosive material in the presence comeback after Corona?
Created: 05/16/2022, 10:40 am
By: Franziska Schwarz
CSU boss Söder (front) and his new Secretary General Huber © Peter Kneffel/dpa
The CSU board of directors is meeting in Munich this Monday morning.
Then Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder will appear in front of the press together with Martin Huber.
Munich – The CSU board of directors will meet on Monday morning (May 16) from 10 a.m.
At noon, party leader Markus Söder wants to appear in front of the press in Munich with his new Secretary General Martin Huber.
The CSU did not announce the planned topics in advance - but that it will be the first board meeting "after a long time".
Söder and Huber in front of the press – General Secretary quickly made the headlines
The Ukraine war and the 2022 North Rhine-Westphalia elections are currently dominating the headlines.
New General Huber also made headlines last week with allegations of plagiarism against him.
The Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich now wants to examine his doctoral thesis as quickly as possible, it was Huber's own wish - "for reasons of transparency".
In a comment,
Münchner-Merkur
editor -in-chief
Georg Anastasiadis emphasized the importance of CSU personnel for the Bavarian state elections in 2023.
Huber is the successor to Stephan Mayer, who had previously resigned. He was inaugurated on Friday, May 6th.
Immediately after that, allegations by plagiarism researcher Jochen Zenthöfer against Huber appeared in the
Bild am Sonntag (BamS)
.
Zenthöfer spoke of citations with no or wrong source in Huber's dissertation.
CSU press conference with Söder and Huber in Munich – Greens put pressure on recently
In addition, Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) called on the Free State last week to change the CSU's position on the expansion of wind power.
"The wind has literally turned," said Habeck, according to the dpa news agency.
The dependency on energy from Russia under Vladimir Putin limits the ability to act in foreign policy.
In the Bavarian economy, the realization has prevailed that it will be detrimental to Bavaria if wind power is not significantly expanded.
"Refusing a difficult debate is not a contribution to the solution," he said, referring to the CSU under Söder (whose poll numbers were better before).
The leader of the Greens in the Bavarian state parliament, Katharina Schulze, also said: "The 10-H rule must finally fall, we need a solar offensive and we have to provide more power lines."
The CSU continues to adhere to its controversial 10-H regulation, which only allows wind turbines to be approved if they are ten times their height from the residential area.
Exceptions have since been decided, but these do not allow full exploitation of the actual potential.
(frs with material from dpa and AFP)