CSU General Secretary and Member of the Bundestag Stephan Mayer resigns from his post. It had previously become known that the politician is said to have threatened a journalist with “annihilation”.
Heavy blow for Markus Söder’s upcoming state election campaign: CSU General Secretary Stephan Mayer resigns from his office with immediate effect. According to the DPA news agency, the politician announced this in a personal statement on Tuesday evening. He justified his step with “health reasons”.
However, before his resignation, Mayer was criticized for reporting in several media about his person. First of all, “Bunte” revealed details of Mayer’s private life last Thursday – which presumably caused him to threaten and insult an editor of the magazine.
Reporting on CSU politician Stephan Mayer
The “Bild” newspaper, citing the Burda publishing house, in which “Bunte” appears, reported that Mayer had threatened a journalist with personal “annihilation”. “I’ll find you, I’ll follow you to the end of your life. I’m demanding 200,000 euros in damages, which you have to transfer to me today,” quoted the “Bild” newspaper on Tuesday afternoon from a letter from Burda’s lawyers to Mayer.
The politician wrote in his resignation statement: “In a conversation with a journalist from the ‘Bunte’, which was conducted because of blatantly illegal reporting, I may have used a choice of words that I would not consider appropriate in retrospect.” He regrets this.
With his resignation, the CSU politician actually wanted to forestall the “Bild” newspaper’s reporting on the process, according to the tabloid’s editorial team. Burda-Verlag described Mayer’s alleged threatening phone calls as “crass transgressions by a high-ranking politician in our democratically constituted state”. The 48-year-old has exceeded “moral, legal and constitutional limits”. The publisher has taken legal action against the politician.
Mayer was appointed Secretary General of the CSU in February and was supposed to help organize the election campaign of Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder for next year’s state elections. Previously, he was Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior under Horst Seehofer. He has been a member of the German Bundestag for the Altötting constituency since 2002. According to reports, Mayer wants to keep his Bundestag mandate.
Editor’s note: This article has been updated several times since it was first published.
Sources: , “Bunte”, news agency DPA
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