Bavaria abandons CSU after 46 years

Bavarian voters made political history on the 28 September 2008 when they robbed the Christian Social Union, sister party to Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, of its ­ruling majority for the first time in 46 years.

The CSU lost its decades-old absolute majority as voters defected to smaller parties in a state election seen as a test of support ahead of national polls in 2009.

ESO: Background information: Bavarian political shift threatens Merkel http://www.europeansources.info/record/bavarian-political-shift-threatens-merkel/

Deitsche Welle, 29.9.08: Bavarian Conservatives Lose State Majority in Damaging Defeat http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3677656,00.html

France24, 28.9.08: CSU loses 46-year-old absolute majority in Bavaria http://www.france24.com/en/20080928-46-years-csu-lose-absolute-majority-bavaria-germany-cdu-merkel-spd&navi=EUROPE

The Local.de, 29.9.08: German press slams CSU failure in Bavaria http://www.thelocal.de/14583/20080929/

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