Munich CSU General Secretary Stephan Mayer has resigned after only a short term in office. “For health reasons, I asked the party leader of the CSU today to release me from my job as general secretary,” Mayer said in a statement distributed by the CSU on Tuesday. The “Bild” newspaper had previously reported on it. Mayer was only appointed Secretary General at the end of February at the suggestion of party leader Markus Söder, after his predecessor Markus Blume had become Minister of Science.
“This is my personal decision,” emphasized the 48-year-old in the written statement. It was with great pleasure that he carried out the office of CSU General Secretary. “I would like to thank the entire party and especially our party chairman Markus Söder for the very good and friendly cooperation.”
Before that, however, massive allegations against Mayer had become public, which he himself addressed directly in his statement: “In a conversation with a journalist from the “Bunte” based on blatantly illegal reporting, I may have used a choice of words that, in retrospect, I found inappropriate would consider,” he wrote. “I very much regret this.”
The letter does not explicitly state whether this influenced the decision to withdraw. According to reports, Mayer threatened a journalist from Burda Verlag over the phone after reporting on possible family circumstances of the Secretary General.
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