MUNICH (Reuters) - Bavarian state premier Horst Seehofer said on Monday he would stay on as leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU) to fight what he expects to be a "very difficult" national election in September and a state poll next year.
As chairman of the CSU, the Bavarian sister party to Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), Seehofer is nominally the chancellor's ally, but he has been a thorn in her side for much of the last two years, criticising her open-door refugee policy.
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