BAVARIAN STATE PREMIER EDMUND STOIBER AND HIS WIFE KARIN WAVE TO THE CROWD DURING TRADITIONAL ...,...

BAVARIAN STATE PREMIER EDMUND STOIBER AND HIS WIFE KARIN WAVE TO THE CROWD DURING TRADITIONAL OKTOBERFEST COSUTUMES PARADE IN MUNICH. Bavarian Premier Edmund Stoiber and his wife Karin wave to the crowd in front of the Theatiner church during the traditional Oktoberfest costumes parade in the Bavarian capital September 21, 2003. In today's Bavarian state elections more than nine million people are eligible to vote in this rich Alpine state, where the conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) has held an absolute majority for more than four decades. Voting started on Sunday in which Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats are set to suffer their third landslide election defeat this year. PP03090143 REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay