Theo Waigel, Germany's Finance Minister and leader of the Christian Social Union Party (R), his wife Irene Eplle-Waigel and Edmund Stoiber (L), Prime Minister of the German State of Bavaria wave to party members at the annual Ash Wednesday political party meeting in Passau, February 25. During the traditional meeting the party members discuss German politician problems and start the campaign prior Germany's general election in September 1998.

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