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Since Mr Seehofer had called Mr Westerwelle a crybaby just weeks earlier, it was a touching reconciliation.
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The latest attempt at reconciliation a modest tax-relief deal between the CDU and FDP backfired because the CSU's chief, Horst Seehofer felt ignored.
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Ms Merkel will look to Mr zu Guttenberg for an electoral lift, but he is beholden to Mr Seehofer, who has been one of her main tormentors since taking over Bavaria in October.
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Mr Seehofer, for example, has distanced himself from her over the euro in a bid to appeal to his Bavarian base (one leading critical economist, Hans-Werner Sinn, runs the CES-ifo institute in Munich).
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"Until further notice, everything is staying the way it is, " declared Horst Seehofer, head of the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian sister party of Ms. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, at a party conference last month.
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Keen to show that the CSU still matters in Berlin, Mr Seehofer demanded tax cuts that Ms Merkel was reluctant to concede and torpedoed a reform of green regulations that she had championed when she was environment minister.
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