'Seehofer steps up as minister if he does not remain party chairman'

berlin - The German politician Horst Seehofer will resign from his position as Minister of the Interior if he can not remain chairman of the CSU. The newspaper Bild am Sonntag reports this on the basis of a confidant from Seehofer. According to the source, the minister does not like to stay on the post 'muddling.'

CSU is the Bavarian sister party of the Christian Democratic CDU of Chancellor Angela Merkel. The party had to defeat last time in the elections in Bavaria and lost the absolute majority there. Since the result, it is assumed that Seehofer can no longer stay on as party chairman.