CSU party Congress in Munich : Markus Söder inherited Horst Seehofer as CSU leader

The CSU has elected Markus Söder, as the new party Chairman. The 52-Year-old received on Saturday at a party Congress in Munich, 87.4 percent of the votes. He assumes the office of Horst Seehofer. A counter-candidate.

Söder received 674 of 771 votes. The delegates elected Seehofer then almost unanimously the CSU honorary Chairman.
in order Söder has taken in less than a year, two leadership posts of Seehofer. In March 2018, he had been already elected as the new Minister-President of Bavaria. Seehofer, however, remains even after the election, Söders of the Federal policy, from his Post as Federal Minister of the interior he wants to - despite the contrary statements.
3739 days of the party's top Seehofer had previously resigned as CSU-Chairman. "Today, I return to the office of the party Chairman, with gratitude and with Pride in the hands of my party," said the 69-Year-old on Saturday in Munich in his farewell speech. Seehofer was emphasized conciliatory, a brief reference to the internal struggle for power to its loads in the past few years, he could not help but. "I am glad that I have a Lot accepted, swallowed, never have talked," said Seehofer. Since the Bundestag election in 2017, there have been "some of the travails".
The 852 delegates thanked Seehofer standing with three and a half minutes of applause for his work on the CSU-to-peak since October 2008. Söder Seehofer also proposed as the third honorary Chairman of the party. He should hold this position in addition to the former party leader Theo Waigel and Edmund Stoiber, said Söder. The 52-Year-old paid tribute to the merits of Seehofer's with him for a long time, a fierce competition has connected: "Horst Seehofer has made in the history of the CSU to this party deserves." In the time of Seehofer's presidency of the CSU have experienced great success and some defeat.
Shortly before the start of the special party Congress on Saturday in Munich, the Federal government wrote to the Minister of the interior on Twitter: "Today I return to the office of the CSU Chairman after more than ten years in the hands of my party." It was, however, so "officially," said the 69-Year-old at the time of his arrival in the hall.

"I responded, never in width or in depth," said Seehofer. And he did this before also in the future. "Because if it is so long in the party, and how I, a grown the party to the heart."
The former CSU Chairman wrote to his party the Care of the so-called little people. In his farewell speech, Mr Seehofer said that if he should ever Express a wish for the future, then this would be: "do not Despise me the little people."
Small people are those righteous citizens who "live in their responsibilities for family and partnership in education and career, children and by your commitment to volunteering is far more than your duty would be to do".
"dear friends, my work here is done," said the 69-Year-old in his last speech as Chairman. It remains to him but a "glowing heart" for the CSU.

offices of the exchange were the norm, said Seehofer in the run-up, "even if one is affected". In the beginning was melancholy, now a mixture of gratitude and relief outweighs "the". Because the office of the CSU Chairman, was connected with a great responsibility. "It is always the existence of a political community," he said.

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Söder: CSU needs to "protection of citizens 'power"

The new CSU leader Markus Söder, has called on his party, meanwhile, in the unsettling times of globalization, as the "protection of citizens" power. "We are a modernizer and preserver at the same time," said Söder on the Saturday before his scheduled election for the successor, at the CSU party Congress. The world with globalization becoming smaller and smaller, "but the Worries come closer". The CSU is open to New things, but that Bavarian character and way of life were preserved.
The coalition partners in the Federal government, of the SPD, held Söder to be the essential questions in the era of the old industrial society stuck. The social Democrats were to give the "old answers to completely new questions."

Also, the CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak was on the verge of the Congress, confident that the disputes between the CDU and the CSU are in the past. "Today is a new Chapter for the whole of the Union begins," he told the German press Agency. At noon, the CDU will Head Annegret expected Kramp-Karrenbauer in Munich.

"We know the importance of our unity for the country as a whole and the upcoming European election campaign, is for Europe a strong and competitive economy, security inside and Outside and our common values," stressed Ziemiak.

Kramp-Karrenbauer: "very, very honest result" Söder

in the face of divisive tendencies in Europe and the AfD are Calling for an exit of Germany from the EU Söder also announced the full commitment of his party for the European idea. It is a "return to urnation alistische times of threat," he warned. Nationalists and populists wanted to split some of the Europe. The CSU will lift with all his strength against such developments, called the Bavarian Prime Minister, and stressed: "We are a ureuropäische party."The CDU Chairman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has congratulated Söder to a "very, very honest earnings" at the time of his election as party leader. CSU-internally, it was said in the run-up to the election, a result from a 90 percent approval would be a success.
As previously Söder also stressed Kramp-Karrenbauer, the Cohesion of the CDU and the CSU. "We are, we were and we remain a political family," said Kramp-Karrenbauer. For the sister parties was that the family will fight, but in the encounter with others would be kept. "We, or the, the must be the motto for the year 2019," she said.

Laschet: a Chance to be Unity in the Union

Federal Chairman Armin Laschet, The Union with the new CSU leader Markus Söder, according to the Deputy of the CDU-the Chance of an end to the duration of the dispute. "We are noticing that the new leadership in Bavaria, has a major goal that 2018 will not be repeated," said the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister on Saturday at the new year reception of the NRW-CDU in Düsseldorf. The long-running dispute between the CDU and the CSU have ripped "all of the parties and the populists made strong".

with Manfred Weber of the CSU member of the new EU Commission, President of the wool, the sweat is also for the European elections in may even more closely. "We want to do everything to ensure that with Manfred Weber, a German Commission President", said Laschet.

Seehofer flirts with horoscope

Immediately before his promised resignation Seehofer had flirted with his horoscope. In his home newspaper "Donaukurier" have stood on the Saturday with him: "you will not lose your face whenever you revise a decision taken." The in the zodiac sign of cancer-born Seehofer expressed when the gear is in the hall of the CSU-party tags.

Horst Seehofer (l), outgoing Chairman of the party and Minister of the interior, comes to a special party conference of the CSU.Photo: Peter Kneffel/dpa

Seehofer's tenure as CSU's chief runs regularly until the autumn. He needs to do with his resignation out of the way so that he can follow as agreed, Markus Söder, as CSU-Chairman. That Seehofer could make his horoscope is true, however, is not to be expected, the party Congress was convened for the successor election.

Perhaps Seehofer's referred Frotzelei to the office of the Federal Minister of the interior - for the Post he had been offered in the past year, his resignation, but corrected again. (dpa/AFP)