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Who became the CDU-CSU candidate for chancellor in the 2002 German election?
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Angela Merkel
Angela Merkel, the first woman to serve as chancellor of Germany, 2012.
In the 2002 German federal election, the candidate for chancellor representing the CDU-CSU alliance was Edmund Stoiber.12
Although Angela Merkel was the chairwoman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at the time and had hoped to run for the chancellorship herself, a majority of the party preferred Stoiber, who led the Christian Social Union (CSU), the CDU's sister party in Bavaria. Consequently, Stoiber secured the nomination and challenged the incumbent chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, in the September 2002 election.132