The Bavarian Prime Minister and head of the Christian Social Union
Party (CSU) stands in front of a statue of former Egyptian King
Tutanchamun while he answer reporter questions in Munich, January 11,
2001.Angela Merkel, chairwoman of the CSU's sister party CDU has given
up her bid to face Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the 2002 election,
allowing Bavarian Prime Minister Edmund Stoiber to run instead.
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