In Autumn, German Interior Minister and then-head of the Christian Social Union (CSU) Horst Seehofer said that he would step down as the party’s chief.
Minister President of Bavaria Markus Söder was elected on Saturday as a new head of the CSU party following the resignation of Horst Seehofer, who had led the party since 2008.
On October 14, the German state of Bavaria held an election in the unicameral Landtag.
The CSU, the sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), showed the second worst election result in the party’s history in Bavarian elections and received 37.2 percent of votes, which corresponded to 85 seats in the Landtag and was not enough to form the government unilaterally.
Bad election results prompted then-head of the CSU Horst Seehofer to resign, while Angela Merkel announced that she wouldn’t run for the leader of the CDU party.