The CSU is doing well right now. If there were a federal election tomorrow, it would be 45 percent in Bavaria. The main reasons for this are probably the population's frustration with the traffic light parties and the Union's comparatively high level of unity.
Even Armin Laschet recently sought a conversation with Markus Söder. The still ambitious CDU man knows from experience that it is difficult to achieve something in the Union against the will of the CSU boss. That still applies.
Söder recently called for “an intellectual and moral turnaround”. The CSU seems to understand this primarily as a backwards role, and not just because of the allusion to Helmut Kohl. If she comes to government in the federal government, she wants to revoke many of the things that the traffic light has decided on, in whole or at least in part: citizens' money, building energy law, cannabis legalization, self-determination law, citizenship law.
