The Christian Social Union in Bavaria is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Germany. Having a regionalist identity,the CSU operates only in Bavaria while its larger counterpart,the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),operates in the other fifteen states of Germany. It differs from the CDU by being somewhat more conservative in social matters,following Catholic social teaching. The CSU is considered the de facto successor of the Weimar-era Catholic Bavarian People's Party.
Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber is a German politician who served as the 16th minister-president of the state of Bavaria between 1993 and 2007 and chairman of the Christian Social Union (CSU) between 1999 and 2007. In 2002,he ran for the office of Chancellor of Germany in the federal election,and in one of the narrowest elections in German history lost against Gerhard Schröder. On 18 January 2007,he announced that he would step down as minister-president and as party chairman by 30 September,after having been under fire in his own party for weeks.
The Landtag of Bavaria,officially known in English as the Bavarian State Parliament,is the unicameral legislature of the German state of Bavaria. The parliament meets in the Maximilianeum in Munich.
Manfred Weber is a German politician who has been serving as President of the European People's Party (EPP) since 2022 and as Leader of the EPP Group in the European Parliament since 2014. He has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany since 2004. He is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU),part of the European People's Party.
Günther Beckstein is a German CSU politician from Bavaria and was the 17th minister-president of Bavaria from 9 October 2007 to 27 October 2008. He is well known for his outspoken views on law and order.
Horst Lorenz Seehofer is a German politician who served as Minister for the Interior,Building and Community under Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Christian Social Union (CSU),he served as the 18th minister-president of Bavaria from 2008 to 2018 and Leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria from 2008 to 2019.
Ilse Aigner is a German politician and member of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU).
CDU/CSU,unofficially the Union parties or the Union,is a centre-right Christian democratic and conservative political alliance of two political parties in Germany:the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU).
The 2008 Bavarian state election was held on 28 September 2008 to elect the members of the Landtag of Bavaria. The result was a historic defeat for the Christian Social Union (CSU),which had governed with a majority uninterrupted since 1962,and had won over 60% of the vote in the 2003 election. Despite polling suggesting that the party would retain its majority with losses,it suffered a 17% swing and came up two seats short of a majority,its worst result since 1954. Minister-President and CSU leader Günther Beckstein subsequently resigned from both posts,and the Landtag elected Horst Seehofer as his successor after the CSU and Free Democratic Party (FDP) came to a coalition agreement.
Bavaria,one of the states of Germany,has a multiparty system dominated by the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). Bavaria has long been a bastion of conservative politics in Germany,with the Christian Social Union has won every election of the state parliament since 1946 and having almost a monopoly on power. Every Minister-President since 1957 has been a member of this party. On the other hand the bigger and more liberal,or rather social democratic,cities,especially Munich,have been governed for decades by the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) until recently the second biggest party. In 2018 the Alliance 90/The Greens which have been represented in the state parliament since 1986,became the second biggest political party in the Landtag and in 2020 the biggest party in the Munich City Council. From the historical point of view,older Bavaria was one of the most liberal,predominantly Roman Catholic states until the rather rural areas of Swabia and Franconia were added in 1814/15 at the Congress of Vienna.
Markus Blume is a German politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as State Minister for Science and Arts in the cabinet of Minister President Markus Söder since 2022. From 2018 to 2022 he served as Secretary General of the CSU.
Alexander Dobrindt is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He is the Chairman of the CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag since 2017. Between 2013 and 2017,he served as Federal Minister of Transport and Digital Infrastructure in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel. Previously,he was the Secretary General of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria under the leadership of party chairman Horst Seehofer from 2009.
The 2013 Bavarian state election was held on 15 September 2013 to elect the 180 members of the 17th Landtag of Bavaria. It was held one week before the 2013 German federal election. The CSU regained the absolute majority it had lost in 2008,while the Free Democratic Party (FDP),a member of the outgoing governing coalition,fell below the 5% electoral threshold and lost all its seats. Minister-President Horst Seehofer continued in office.
Markus Thomas Theodor Söder is a German politician serving as Minister-President of Bavaria since 2018 and leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) since 2019.
Stephan Ernst Johann Mayer is a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Social Union (CSU) who has been a member of the German Bundestag since 2002. In 2022,he briefly served as the Secretary General of the CSU,under the leadership of the party's chairman Markus Söder.
Joachim Herrmann is a German politician. He is a member of the CSU party. Herrmann is an MP in the Landtag,the parliament of Bavaria since 1994. Since 16 October 2007 he has been Minister of the Interior of the state of Bavaria.
Melanie Huml is a German physician and politician of the Christian Social Union of Bavaria (CSU) who has been serving as State Minister for European and International Affairs in the cabinet of Minister-President Markus Söder since 2021. She has been a member of the Landtag of Bavaria since October 2003.
The 2018 Bavarian state election took place on 14 October 2018 to elect the 180 members of the 18th Landtag of Bavaria. The outgoing government was a majority of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU),led by Minister President Markus Söder.
Florian Pronold is a German lawyer and politician of the SPD who served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2002 until 2021. From 11 July 2009 to 20 May 2017,he was state chairman of the SPD Bavaria.
The First Söder cabinet was the state government of Bavaria from March to November 2018,sworn in on 21 March 2018 after Markus Söder was elected as Minister-President of Bavaria by the members of the Landtag of Bavaria. It was the 26th Cabinet of Bavaria.
