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BBC News By Laurence Peter image captionIn an official Bavarian state video Mr Söder gives the Vulcan salute from Star Trek Space. the final frontier. Bavarian premier Markus Söder knows the immortal words from Star Trek well, but his journey may end up in the chancellor s office in Berlin. Angela Merkel has dominated German politics since 2005, but she will no longer be chancellor after the September federal election. Mr Söder is seen as the hot favourite to run as chancellor-candidate for her Christian Democrats (CDU) and their smaller Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union. If he makes it to the chancellery it will be something of a revolution in German politics: a conservative CSU candidate has never held the reins of power in Berlin before. But Mr Söder, the leader of Germany s largest state, has not yet put himself forward officially.

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