The CSU has 45 seats in the Bundestag, making it the smallest of the six parties represented.

The CSU currently has three ministers in the cabinet of Germany of the federal government in Berlin, while party leader Horst Seehofer serves as Minister-President of Bavaria: a position that CSU representatives have held since 1957.

No Chancellor has ever come from the CSU, although Franz Josef Strauss and Edmund Stoiber were CDU / CSU candidates for Chancellor in the 1980 election and the 2002 election, respectively, which were both won by the SPD.

Since its formation, the CSU has been more conservative than the CDU.

It has been in federal government longer than any other party, as the junior coalition partner to either the CDU / CSU ( 1949 – 56, 1961 – 66, 1982 – 98, and since 2009 ) or the Social Democratic Party ( 1969 – 82 ).

Enrollment first reached 7, 500 in 1974, and though it has increased to near 8, 000 in years since, the university remains one of the smallest in the CSU system.

CSU Long Beach's College of the Arts has more art and design majors than any other public university in America.

Their mutual party, the CSU, has dominated the Bavarian Landtag for nearly the entire post-war period.

With state financial support declining, CSU has also put a focus on alternate funding models based on market-based financial strategies and increased forms of private support.

Colorado State has converted the historic Fort Collins High School building into its University Center for the Arts In 2008 CSU also opened its University Center for the Arts, located in the old Fort Collins High School.

CSU purchased this historic building in 1995 and has since converted it into a new home for its programs in music, dance, theatre and the visual arts.

For over 40 years, CSU has also provided a well-regarded Distance MBA Program.

Another recent research project has taken CSU faculty to Mexico to study dengue fever.

Colorado State's new research Supercluster model brings together researchers across disciplines to work on topics of global concern in which CSU has a demonstrated expertise.

CSU has established Superclusters in Infectious Disease and Cancer Research and Treatment.

CSU has a well established research program in infectious disease.

CSU has won 9 MWC tournament championships and won or shared 11 regular season titles.

CSU also has a student-run campus television station and a student radio station, KCSU FM.

Though progress has been made, increasing minority enrollment at CSU has been a challenge for school administrators, one made yet more difficult by high dropout rates in many Colorado high schools with concentrated minority populations.

CSU has 169, 935 living alumni with 50 active alumni chapters ( 14 in Colorado and 37 out of state ) and 9 national interest groups.

CSU has four Faculties each offering a diverse range of courses and discipline opportunities:

Gerhard Schröder led the coalition of SPD and Greens to an eleven-seat victory over the Christian Democrat challengers headed by Edmund Stoiber ( CSU ).

Riding a wave of popularity from the return of the last POWs from Soviet labor camps, as well as an extensive pension reform, Adenauer led the CDU / CSU to the first — and as of 2011, only — outright majority in a free German election.

The party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in Germany, along with the conservative CDU / CSU, and is led by Sigmar Gabriel.

In the federal elections of 2009, Westerwelle committed his party to a coalition with Dr Merkel's CDU / CSU, ruling out a coalition with Social Democrats and Greens, and led his party to unprecedented 14. 6 %.

McMahon led BYU to victory against CSU, accounting for 112 passing yards, 80 rushing yards, and two touchdowns.

In 1945, Sorrell lead the CSU strike that led to Hollywood Black Friday.

However, the state has suffered severe budget deficits ever since the enacting of Proposition 13 in 1978, which led to the imposition of per-unit enrollment fees for California residents ( equivalent in all but name to tuition ) at all community colleges and all CSU and UC campuses to get around the legal ban on tuition.

Lubick succeeded Earle Bruce and led CSU to multiple conference championships and bowl appearances.

The CSU was founded as a continuation of the Weimar-era Catholic Bavarian People's Party.

In 2003, the CSU was re-elected as the Bavarian government with a majority ( 60. 7 % and 124 of 180 seats in the state parliament ).

Along with its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union of Bavaria ( CSU ), the CDU forms the CDU / CSU grouping, also known as the Union, in the Bundestag.

Such was the consensus that Ostpolitik had been vindicated that Bavarian Minister-President Franz Josef Strauß, who had fiercely fought against the Basic Treaty and was Kohl's main opponent within the CDU / CSU bloc, secured the passage of a Kohl-initiated 3 billion mark loan to the GDR in 1983.

Prior to the cancellation, the Bavarian governing party CSU faced internal and local resistance, in particular from communities along the proposed route.

Kohl's CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU, slipped from 48. 8 % of the vote in 1983 to 44. 3 %.

Meanwhile the Centre Party tried to forge an alliance of small parties of Christian persuasion, to offer an alternative to disappointed CDU / CSU voters, but it only gained the support of the " Bavarian Party ".

In post-war Germany, no serious attempt was made to recreate the party as a political force when conservative and centrist forces united into bigger parties like the CDU and the CSU, its Bavarian branch.

Bahro also called for the overcoming of the right-left scheme: To get out of the minority position, the Greens should also " penetrate into the territory of the Bavarian CSU ".

In 1974 he gained the highest election victory for the CSU in Bavarian history with 62. 1 % of the votes.

Dr. Otto Wiesheu ( born October 31, 1944 in Zolling ) is a Bavarian CSU politician and an expert on traffic.

However, his counterpart Finance Minister Franz-Josef Strauss ( CSU ) rejected the Deutsche Mark's revaluation, because his strong supporters, the Bavarian farmers, also opposed it.

* 1957, 1 August, Beate Merk, politician ( CSU ), Bavarian State Justice Minister

Handlos, along with Ekkehard Voigt, represented the right of the party within the Bavarian CSU, with both men staunch critics of the leadership of Franz Josef Strauss.