Shortly before the Bavarian election, the CSU’s poll numbers are anything but good. Party leader Söder is combative in Munich. His party demonstratively supports him shortly before election day.
Despite mixed poll results, the CSU demonstratively rallied behind its party leader Markus Söder shortly before the Bavarian state elections. Two weeks before the election date, the party congress confirmed him in his position as CSU leader with 96.56 percent in the regular election of the board. This is Söder’s best result so far in four chairman elections.
Bavaria’s Prime Minister received 646 of the 669 valid votes in the unopposed vote in Munich. There were 10 abstentions – these are considered invalid votes by the CSU.
Söder distributes
In his speech, Söder had previously sworn the delegates into the decisive final spurt in the election campaign – particularly with attacks on the Berlin traffic light coalition and the AfD, but also with swipes at the coalition partner, the Free Voters.
“This federal government is probably the worst government Germany has ever had,” said Söder. He described the AfD as right-wing extremist. And about the Free Voters, who are currently experiencing a surge in polls after the leaflet affair surrounding their chairman Hubert Aiwanger, he said: “I’m not entirely sure whether one or the other of the polls have gone to their heads.” He clearly rejected considerations that the Free Voters could take over the Ministry of Agriculture from the CSU after the state elections on October 8th. “My urgent advice: more humility before elections and voters,” said the Prime Minister.
Bad poll numbers
In surveys, the CSU had recently fallen to up to 36 percent, which was still below its historically poor state election result from 2018 (37.2 percent). Söder and his CSU, who want to continue the coalition with the Free Voters, must therefore do everything in their power to increase the vote by a few percentage points in the last few meters.
It was Söder’s fourth election as CSU leader. When he took office at the beginning of 2019, he received 87.4 percent of the vote, and the following autumn he achieved his best result to date with 91.3 percent. Two years ago, 87.6 percent voted for him. There were no opposing candidates in all elections.
Source: Stern
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