Voted first on the European list: Manfred Weber on November 25, 2023 in Nuremberg
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The CSU is putting forward its candidates for the European elections. There are no opposing candidacies – but the question of how many mandates there will be enough for in 2024 is still a concern for the party.
MThe CSU is currently represented in the EU Parliament with six members and will be represented again after the European elections next year. At least. It won’t be easy. Because the signs have changed, in Bavaria and in the EU. In the state elections on October 8th, the CSU came away with another scare, but its coalition partner, the Free Voters, was able to make significant gains.
And the Free Voters want to take this success with them into the European elections. They will not shy away from clear rhetoric against excessive bureaucracy and out-of-touch elites, while the CSU must manage a balancing act between criticism of supposed over-regulation and praise for the peace and prosperity project. And then there is the anti-European AfD, which came third in the state elections behind the CSU and Free Voters, and can probably expand on its European election result from 2019 (8.5 percent).
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