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BERLIN: Germany's conservative Opposition on Monday nominated Angela Merkel, a Protestant minister's daughter from the formerly communist east, as its election challenger to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, party officials said. Ms. Merkel, who would become Germany's first female leader if elected, was endorsed by a meeting of top officials from her Christian Democrats and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, the officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The 50-year-old emerged as the firm favourite for the post last week, immediately after the Chancellor called for national elections to be advanced by a year following a shattering state election defeat for his party. Born in Hamburg in the west, Ms. Merkel grew up across the Cold War frontier in the East German town of Templin, where her father moved when she was 3. She got a late start in politics after a career as a scientist. She worked as a quantum chemistry researcher in East Berlin before joining a pro-democracy group, Democratic Renewal, at age 35 in 1989 as communism was crumbling. After the Berlin Wall fell, Ms. Merkel became a spokeswoman for East Germany's first and only democratically elected leader, Lothar de Maiziere. She joined the Christian Democrats in August 1990.
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