Green: Group leader: Daxenberger resigns
The Bavarian Greens lose a popular figurehead: the leader in the parliament, Sepp Daxenberger, his office is on - for health reasons.
The ill with cancer Greens parliamentary leader of the Bavarian state parliament, Sepp Daxenberger, lay down his office. Daxenberger stated this Wednesday at a meeting of the parliamentary group of his resignation as Chairman, the Green Group said.
He had justified this step with his health under attack. With regard to the work of the group he would therefore resign his leadership position. Later in the afternoon would have had Daxenberger also issue a short statement publicly.
Daxenberger until spring insert a fresh two-month forced break and be treated in the hospital can. The 48-year-old has been suffering for several years on a plasmacytoma, a malignant disease of the bone marrow. The wife of Green politician has cancer.
Daxenberger resignation had been accepted by the Greens MPs with great regret, a spokeswoman reported on the outskirts of the group meeting in Munich. Daxenberger managed in Waging am See the organic farm of his family. From 1990 to 1996 he sat for the Open, which he is a member since the 80s, has spent time in parliament. In 1996 he was in Waging deep elected in CSU home country, for the first Green Party mayor of Bavaria - and remained so until 2008.
From 2002 to 2008 he was also chairman of the Greens. Then he went again as a deputy in the parliament and became party leader.
