Overview

• At a campaign event in Bocholt before roughly 1,000 people, Markus Söder appeared with NRW Minister President Hendrik Wüst to project a united CDU/CSU front.
• Söder posted a lunchtime photo of a Pizza Salsiccia with olives to X and Instagram, continuing his recurring food-focused social media branding.
• Former health minister Karl Lauterbach criticized the pizza post on X, warning of “grams of salt and saturated fat” and calling it a hoped-for occasional indulgence.
• On stage, Söder pushed for cutting bureaucracy in Europe and railed against environmental and animal-protection rules he said block infrastructure, declaring, “If every salamander stops our economy, we should not be surprised.”
• He flatly refused changing Bavaria’s summer-holiday dates despite NRW discussions, telling Wüst there was “no chance” of altering the Bavarian schedule.