Quota for women: Sharply contradicts Söder and the CSU majority

Created: 10/01/2022, 02:00 p.m

By: Hans Moritz

Ulrike Scharf continues to fight for more women in politics - in the front row.

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Markus Söder is against the further expansion of the women's quota in CSU committees - and reaps opposition from the Women's Union (FU) - and Erding's currently most prominent politician.

Erding - Their state chair, the Erdinger state parliamentarian and Minister of Social Affairs Ulrike Scharf, warns that the CSU is in danger of losing the social connection.

“People's parties across Europe are under heavy pressure.

There is only one answer to this: You must not detach yourself from the pace of social developments, otherwise you will very quickly become a thing of the past." For Scharf is certain: "Equality and the mobilization of young women for politics is not about clientele but a question of survival" of the CSU.

That is why the FU stays on course with the promotion of women, mentoring, role models - and "pragmatically implementable quota regulations at different levels".

However, Scharf admits that there is currently no application for further quota regulations.

Söder said at a meeting of the Junge Union at the weekend that the CSU did not need any further quotas.

Currently, 40 percent of the offices in the state executive board and in the districts must be filled by women.

In 2019, Söder got a rebuff at the party conference to introduce a 50 percent women's quota in all CSU district executives.

In view of the state elections in 2023, the FU is not pursuing any further plans for the time being.

She leaves it open how things will continue after that.

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