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Söder praises Baerbock and Habeck – and sends the Greens an ambiguous warning: “Whether that will last in the long run …”

2022-05-17T03:32:11.668Z


Söder praises Baerbock and Habeck – and sends the Greens an ambiguous warning: “Whether that will last in the long run …” Created: 05/17/2022, 05:23 By: Franziska Schwarz Martin Huber (left) and Markus Söder go together to the CSU presence meeting in Munich. © Peter Kneffel/dpa Press conference after the CSU board meeting: Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder and the new General Secretary Mar


Söder praises Baerbock and Habeck – and sends the Greens an ambiguous warning: “Whether that will last in the long run …”

Created: 05/17/2022, 05:23

By: Franziska Schwarz

Martin Huber (left) and Markus Söder go together to the CSU presence meeting in Munich.

© Peter Kneffel/dpa

Press conference after the CSU board meeting: Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder and the new General Secretary Martin Huber spoke primarily about the NRW election.

Update from May 16, 1:34 p.m

.: The PK with Markus Söder and CSU Secretary General Martin Huber lasted a good 30 minutes

(see first report)

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The new Secretary General took up less than five of them.

His boss Söder acknowledged the CDU's success in the 2022 NRW election and the commitment of Hendrik Wüst, "who fought like a lion".

The CSU leader saw the conservatives' success as a "common success".

The CSU works “very, very well” with its sister party and was worse off at the beginning of the year.

Söder also drew a parallel between the "small federal elections" in North Rhine-Westphalia and the district elections that had just been held in Bavaria.

The CDU success in NRW is a "massive lesson" for the traffic light coalition in Berlin, explained Söder in the PK.

The Greens - primarily Economics Minister Habeck and Foreign Minister Baerbock - are currently showing a "strong performance".

However, the party is currently changing its "brand essence" and whether that "will last" will be decided by the voters, Söder teased.

CSU General Huber speaks of "Scholz-Malus" - Söder calls the 9-euro ticket a "strange concept"

The SPD with Chancellor Olaf Scholz attested Söder “contradictions”.

Huber also acknowledged the Social Democrats in his speech "refusal of reality", spoke of a "Scholz malus", and joked about his (pre-chancellor) saying of "deliver leadership", which has now become a dictum: "I see where the supply chain collapsed.”

The liberals also got their fat off with a view to their bankruptcy in NRW at Söder: "A lot of what the FDP has launched does not go down with the citizens," he believes.

"Anyone who thinks that they can collect votes with Corona is wrong."

Many people are currently more interested than Corona in how far they will get in the summer with the planned 9-euro ticket, part of the "Relief Package 2022".

The CSU boss called the plan a "strange concept" that the federal states in particular would have to pay for: "You don't have much effect." The "nice idea" would have been interesting for the "colder season", Söder explained.

However, the planned 365-euro ticket would be more effective.

Premiere for the new CSU General: PK with Söder and Huber in Munich

Preliminary report from May 16

: 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)

Source: merkur

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