Former economics minister Pschierer is moving to the FDP
Created: 09/28/2022, 14:12
Franz Josef Pschierer (CSU), former Economics Minister, takes part in a press conference.
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Munich/Allgäu - Franz Pschierer, member of the Allgäu state parliament, will announce his move to the FDP parliamentary group on Wednesday, according to the hallways of the state parliament.
There are still a few talks to be held, party friends and ex-party friends to be informed, but the Liberals have invited to a press conference for the afternoon.
According to reports, the CSU received the resignation letter at noon.
The personnel was not officially confirmed at first.
FDP parliamentary group leader Martin Hagen invited to a press conference at short notice in the afternoon.
The CSU said at noon that Pschierer had already left the parliamentary group.
The short declaration of resignation was received there on Wednesday.
In CSU circles it was speculated on Wednesday that a possible power struggle for the state parliament candidacy in Pschierer's constituency could have been the trigger for his step.
Because at the CSU Unterallgäu on Monday evening at a non-public district board meeting in Bad Wörishofen, the district councilor and mayor of Markt Wald, Peter Wachler, threw his hat for a state parliament candidate in the ring.
As a result, the former Minister of State Franz Josef Pschierer surprisingly gets an opponent in the constituency of Kaufbeuren.
Pschierer would have had a serious opponent there, it was said.
On the other hand, Pschierer's relationship with Söder has long been considered burdened.
Pschierer, who was also head of the CSU SME Union, did not shy away from public criticism of Söder.
For example, Pschierer was one of the critics of Söder's former Corona course early on - he was often very much on the FDP line here.
With the new addition, the FDP should hope for additional votes in the state elections in autumn 2023.
In 2018, she narrowly made it into parliament with 5.1 percent.
In surveys it has been five to seven percent in recent months, most recently six percent.
