Overview
- Dorothee Bär told Süddeutsche Zeitung that Markus Söder has apologized to her multiple times and that she considers the matter closed.
- Söder said at the CSU party conference on December 12 that he expected "not much" from Bär and asked for "a lot of money for Bavaria," a line widely described as humiliating.
- Bär said she has known Söder for decades and understood during the speech that he did not mean the comment as it sounded.
- Social media users and commentators criticized the remark, while Söder lavished far more praise on Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt in the same address.
- At the same conference, Söder was re-elected party chair with 83.6 percent and Bär was confirmed as a vice chair with 74.6 percent, the weakest result among candidates.