Markus Söder is re-elected leader of the Bavarian CSU after a speech against the Scholz government and uncontrolled immigration. In absolute numbers, they have been 646 of the 669 valid votes. There were 10 abstentions, which in the CSU are counted as invalid votes. The CSU appears with 36% of the vote, down from its poor result in the 2018 state elections (37.2%). If S Öder and his CSU want to continue to the coalition with the Free Electors, they must do everything in their power to gain a few percentage points.