The minister is in the conservative Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), allied to Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The CSU leader in Bavaria, Edmund Stoiber, is not keen on the flat-rate health premium.
And where the UC and CSU systems are now, every other public university will soon follow.
It is already clear that the CSU's boss, Edmund Stoiber, will become economics minister.
The CDU-CSU alliance opposed the full tax cut on the grounds that Germany could not afford it.
She comes from the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian wing of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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Economy Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, from Mrs Merkel's conservative CDU-CSU alliance, criticised the pledges, saying they were short of detail.
This was the fate of Ludwig Erhard in 1966, when an earlier coalition of CDU, CSU and FDP abandoned him.
CSU's lost clout may be more obvious under Mr Huber, who spurned a chance to head Ms Merkel's chancellery in 2005.
In a forecast issued April 9, the CSU team predicted 15 named storms, an increase from its December number of 13.
If it is approved (the polls are tight), UC and CSU will freeze tuition fees for the first time in years.
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On February 10th he presented Mr zu Guttenberg to the press in Berlin, alongside the new CSU general secretary and his deputy.
The FDP is stepping up pressure for tax cuts, joined by the CSU, which is almost as nervous about its own future.
Currently the CSU system has 23 campuses, serving more than 400, 000 students.
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CSU's parliamentary group, emerged as its new pick to become economics minister.
The CSU in Bavaria is accustomed to winning more than half the vote in the state, but in this election barely topped 40%.
The bill is expected to be passed next year in the regional parliament, which is dominated by the Christian Social Union (CSU) party.
Mr Guttenberg is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU).
But "we believe that the Atlantic basin is still in an active hurricane cycle, " William Gray, who co-heads the CSU team, said in December.
The CDU's roots are in the Catholic church, especially in Germany's south (its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, or CSU, considers itself a separate Volkspartei).
The extra fee revenue is not enough to compensate for the decline in state funding, and so both UC and CSU have aimed to reduce enrolment numbers.
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But opinion polls have suggested he remains popular in Germany, where reports say his Christian Social Union (CSU) party would like him to return to frontline politics.
The parties' combined membership (excluding the CSU's) has dropped from 1.7m in the 1970s to 1m, with the CDU surpassing the SPD for the first time last year.
"We have decided - the CDU-CSU faction in the Bundestag - that there would be no more expansion at all, " he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.
It is wonderful to be here, and I just want to say thank you for our hosts at KSU for -- or CSU, rather, excuse me -- for their hospitality.
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If the first grand coalition was a partial success, it was mainly because Karl Schiller, the SPD economics minister, and Franz Josef Strauss, the CSU finance minister, got along well.
After the constitutional court overturned a law in March that required telecoms and internet firms to make records available to police, the CDU and CSU clamoured for a robust replacement.
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The 18 September elections left neither the centre-left SPD nor the conservative CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU, with a majority in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
Fees typically run about 10% of standard CSU costs.
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