Friedrich Merz, parliamentary floor leader of the opposition Christian
Democratic party CDU walks passed demonstrators of the youth
organisation of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrates
prior to a CDU board meeting in Berlin May 6, 2002. The CDU and her
sister party Christian Social Union party CSU of Bavarian prime
minister Edmund Stoiber is expected to lay out their electoral
programme for the September 22 general elections. REUTERS/Arnd
Wiegmann

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