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Munich (dpa) - After the serious damage to the party's image by the mask affair, the CSU board wants to adopt stricter rules for elected officials on Friday.
There are no other topics to be dealt with at the special session via video conference.
CSU boss Markus Söder and general secretary Markus Blume had already presented the new ten-point plan last Sunday.
According to this, all incumbent and all future elected officials must grant “full transparency” to their additional income and disclose this party and parliaments.
In the case of management tasks for the CSU in parliaments, commercial secondary activities are also to be prohibited in the future.
All men and women who want to run for membership in the CSU in the future must sign a new "Declaration of Integrity" and admit to the CSU's own code of conduct, which is to be tightened again.
Serious violations of the code are threatened with expulsion from the party.
The package of measures is necessary to protect the CSU, said Söder on Sunday.
The CSU is at a crossroads, it is a matter of fundamental credibility, integrity and trust in the entire party.
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The background to the tougher pace are the recently known corruption investigations against CSU politicians such as the former Bavarian Minister of Justice and Member of Parliament Alfred Sauter.
The investigations are related to the purchase of corona protective masks by the state.
Sauter had therefore resigned all party offices this week under pressure from the CSU party and parliamentary group, including his seats on the board and in the presidium as well as the chairmanship of the CSU finance commission.
He also left the parliamentary group.
Sauter, like the member of the Bundestag Georg Nüßlein, who has since left the CSU and against whom corruption investigations are also underway, rejects all allegations as unjustified.
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