Sder was the only candidate to receive 600 of the 685 valid delegate votes. This meant that 87.6 percent were behind the party leader. A total of 694 votes were cast, nine votes were invalid.
Sder ended up just above the result of 87.4 percent in his first election in early 2019, but lagged behind the result of his re-election in October 2019 – at that time it was 91.3 percent. Sder, who accepted the election, had been officially proposed for re-election by the President of the Bavarian State Parliament, Ilse Aigner.
Sder had previously committed the delegates to a strenuous final spurt of the election campaign in Germany and emphasized the unity with the sister party CDU and Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU). He is sure that the conservative Union will be able to close the survey gap on the social democratic SPD in the remaining two weeks before the election date.
Sder demonstratively stood behind his former competitor Laschet, who is expected as a guest on Saturday at the CSU party conference in Nuremberg. Previously, given historically weak polls, there had been skeptical voices from the CSU about Laschet’s candidacy.
