I suspect this is all theater diesigned only to bolster the CSU against the AfD in the fall. The trick is giving Seehofer something that will allow himself to posture as strong on migration.
Power in Bavaria is definitely on the table in October and they have to pull a rabbit out of a hat and sham wow the voters to change the polling data as it stands now.
Exactly. But I don’t think what CSU is doing is going to help them. How does Seehofer’s resignation make him appear strong?
If he wanted to appear strong, he would continue as Interior Minister and insist on blocking the border to secondary migration forcing Merkel to fire him. Instead, he just walks away from all that power and allows the coalition to succumb to EU demands without a fight. That’s the weakling move.
I see no way the CDU/CSU alliance can continue much longer. CDU is now left of center, especially on migration, and Bavaria is not going to support that indefinitely.