Tensions
The differences between the CDU and the somewhat more socially conservative CSU have sometimes led to conflicts in the past. These tensions climaxed during the 1970s, when Helmut Kohl became CDU chairman in 1972, then considered a moderate or even progressive and also a personal foe of the right-winged then-CSU chairman Franz-Josef Strauß, who had held that office since 1961.
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