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Bavaria's conservative state Premier Edmund Stoiber of the Christian Social Union (CSU) smiles broadly while addressing journalists at a press conference in Munich, 22 September 2003. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (R) and his Social Democratic Party top candidate in the local Bavarian elections, Franz Maget suffered a humiliating defeat Sunday when voters in Bavaria handed conservative state Premier Edmund Stoiber's Christian Social Union (CSU) a record-setting 62 per cent win to the SPD's 18.5per cent. EPA PHOTO/DPA/GERO BRELOER//