Suddenly, the Bavaria party is the fourth-strongest force

The party got at the election in 2014 is just a seat. However, in the past few months, a number of politicians have defected.

Of Heiner Effern

The Bavaria party is the fastest growing group in the Munich city Council. Of the municipal elections in 2014 to date, she has increased her staff by at least 500 percent. Since on Monday Andre guards the changing of the Liberal-Conservative reformers (LKR) has announced that it has six aldermen. Selected for the Bayern party only Richard Progl 2014, the other came from the SPD, Free voters, the CSU and now of the LKR. Nevertheless, the Group's Chairman, Johann Altmann stresses that he is in the city Council for any purpose of the Federal individual presidencies fighters, but everyone worked together "like a family". The SZ presents the Patchwork force.

Johann Altmann heads the group of the Bavaria party.

(photo: Lukas Barth)

At the top of the group of Johann Altmann, has been a member since 2002 of the city Council. At the time, he moved in for the CSU in the panel, but switched after four years of liberal voters. After Trouble with the city chief Michael Piazolo, the current Bavarian Minister for culture, took it in March of 2016, the Bavaria party. The 64-year-old former police officer is considered to be affable guy, in the city Council he is famous for his favorite phrase: "Declaration in Committee."

he did not let go in any Assembly, when his group of a draft resolution agree to, which happens relatively often. Often it is the cost of a project, the red and black government Alliance, which give the rash. Altmann also has this in view, in addition to his involvement in the city planning, Housing and transport, he also holds the budget speeches for the Bavaria party. Often it annoys him, when he comes to the mayor and Treasurer and the chairmen of the large groups only towards the end of the session, and he fights against the rising noise level in the room. The growth in the group will not only bring the committees more seats in the city Council, but also to secure the fourth speech place on the list of presidents.

Richard Progl as the Only member of his group, no further addition to his party affiliation. Since Bavaria is a party, nothing more than Bayern's party. The reason is simple: Progl, the Original is in the group of six. The 39-year-old business economist is not only for the Bavarian Tradition and language, he lives both. He sits in the circle of management and in the IT Committee. There he occupied, among others, the digitisation, he is also a unit of so-called co-examiner of the city Council for IT.

As the Only always in the Bavaria party: Richard Progl.

(photo: Günther Reger)

Annoyed, he responds to the "Radl-dogmatism" of the Green, a Virus, he looks like his group also, and increasingly, the SPD attacked. In order to protect motorists and including the Diesel group in front of these opponents, calls Progl currently, the immediate lifting of the current exhaust gas values for fine dust and carbon dioxide, until they were scientifically investigated.

the only woman in The group, the Bayern party is Eva Caim. She moved in the spring of 2016, out of frustration and Anger of the CSU, the Bavarian party. The trained nurse, 71, is sitting since 1996 in the city Council, and since then, especially in health policy. As to the local election 2014 in the CSU of the habilitated doctor, Hans Theiss, more and more accents on your box set and the two were in substance is often not in agreement, they broke with their long-standing political home. Especially for the rehabilitation of the urban hospitals, and when dealing with the staff Caim had a different opinion than the CSU.

Ex-CSUlerin Eva Caim is the only woman in the group.

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Caim pulled it in 2016 to the Mario Schmidbauer of the CSU, the Bavarian party. The skilled trade focuses on the economic policy, especially the small businesses. In addition, he sits on the Committee for education and sports. One of his great passions, and politically, is the Oktoberfest. Just like he would have been in the CSU for Oktoberfest the city Council, but he found no majority. The Trouble it seems to have been a main reason for his escape to the Bavaria party. Schmidbauer's upset, especially about the Green, especially if he sees himself and the Bavarian way of life of the environmental party, patronized. What happens quite often.

Of the SPD on delivery Joseph Assal, 60, to the group of the Bavaria party. However, Assal for a period of time independent and tried to enlist in the voters Free. But they didn't want him. Actually, it had not wanted the SPD even before the 2014 election, and get him very far back on the list. However, the citizens ' critical establishment did not favor the and häufelten him in the city Council. There is the long-standing fire Department worked emergency physician with the social policy. In this field, he now also supports the group of the Bavaria party.

Joseph Assal no longer liked the SPD - and she him.

(photo: Lukas Barth)

the latest addition to The Bavaria party is the least of Munich. The 45-year-old Banker, Andre guard is born in Coburg, linguistically, he remained more true to his native he'd taken the Bavarian. He feels the conservative-bourgeois programme attracted, the Euro-scepticism of the Bavaria party is likely to have been an Argument for the change. The criticism of the common currency in Europe was and is his theme. He therefore entered once in the AfD, he left again, as the extreme right-wing forces have the upper hand won.

After that, he joined the Liberal-Conservative reformers, he sees but in the absence of resonance and success of the resolution. Security guard says he saw two possibilities: the time in the city Council of the insignificance to do or to try in a group for a year to influence policy. Particularly its economic and financial policy expertise he would bring in. Three seats for the Bayern party in the local elections would have to be the target, says the guardian. He wanted to help, even when it is clear that Altmann, Progl and Schmidbauer had all the chances to take this.