Bavarian leader holds back from Merkel

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Series Details 4.8.05
Publication Date 04/08/2005
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Interview with Edmund Stoiber, who is state premier of Bavaria and chairman of the CSU, the CDU sister party. Mr Stoiber is Germany's most influential opposition politician after Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He says that he will not decide whether to join her in government, should she win the 18 September 2005 election, until several weeks after the vote.

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