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Germany set to get its first female president after Merz backs Bavarian conservative Aigner
BERLIN: Germany looks set to get its first female head of state next year after Chancellor Friedrich Merz nominated Ilse Aigner on Monday as his conservatives’ candidate to replace President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in the largely ceremonial role. With the support of Merz’s conservatives, their Social Democrat partners in Germany’s ruling coalition and the Greens, Aigner is very likely to be elected in January by the Federal Convention comprising members of the lower house of parliament and delegates from Germany’s 16 federal state parliaments. The term of Steinmeier, a Social Democrat, ends in...
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