If a new state parliament had been elected in Bavaria on Sunday, the victory of the CSU would not have required the rhetoric of a new basic program or a prime minister who, in the total(itarian) SED tradition, had himself chosen as the top candidate in an open vote with one hundred percent.
Unlike the CDU, the CSU still manages to fill the role of a "catch-all" party. Although Söder may be erratic and anything but a team player, many of his ministers are the exact opposite in character and, moreover, integrated into so many, especially regional networks, that all other political forces have little room to develop.
If this party haze is too stuffy for you, you don't have to give away your vote. In the Free Voters, the CSU will have a willing majority procurer ready in the fall, if necessary, who is meat from its own flesh.
This also relieves Söder of the need to once again ensnare the electorate of the AfD and possibly lose voters in the middle. It is true that the issue of migration is hardly less pressing than it was during the last state election campaign.
But since 2021, as with all evils in general, the traffic light coalition has been to blame for this and not for a party that co-governed the federal government in the previous 16 years and also provided interior, defense and transport ministers during this time.