Franz Josef Strauss and Edmund Stoiber, CSU, Germany

Jan. 09 CSU-Party-Congress in Munich, West Germany: The Party Congress of the Christian Socialist Union took place in Munich on September 28th and 29th, 1979. The meeting took a special national and International interest because of the fact that the Chairman of this party, Franz Josef Strauss, after a dramatic confrontation within the CDU/CSU sister parties, became nominated as common candidate for chancellorship for the coming elections in autumn 1980. At the Munich Party Congress Franz Josef Strauss was re-elected as chairman of the CSU with an overwhelming majority (by 857 of 886 legal votes). Photo shows CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauss (L) and secretary general of the Christian Socialist Union, Dr. Edmund Stoiber (R)

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