Andreas Scheuer resigned from his Bundestag mandate on Easter Monday. The CSU now lacks a seat in Berlin until the next election.
The 49-year-old had already declared in January that he no longer wanted to run in the next federal election. As a minister, Scheuer came under massive criticism because of the failed car toll - even within the CSU, he was subsequently seen as a burden by many. The background is the current electoral law, which currently does not provide for a replacement procedure in the case of theCSU.