Bavaria's Aigner Tipped to Become Germany's First Woman President
CDU leaders are set to endorse the Bavarian politician, who could become Germany’s first female president with backing from the SPD and some Greens.
- On Friday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats agreed to back Ilse Aigner from the Bavarian Christian Social Union for German president, ending weeks of tension between the sister parties.
- The CSU proposed Aigner earlier this year, but the CDU delayed endorsing her while Merz considered alternative candidates, straining relations between the two parties.
- If elected by the Federal Convention, Aigner would become Germany's first female head of state, drawing on her experience as agriculture minister under former Chancellor Angela Merkel.
- Aigner has received strong verbal backing from members of the centre-left Social Democrats and the environmental Greens, suggesting a viable path to the presidency beyond her own coalition.
- A CDU spokesperson declined to confirm the nomination, stating, "I can neither confirm nor deny that and would refer you to the committee meetings on Monday.
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Germany will very likely get its first female and Bavarian Federal President. According to various German media, the coalition is fielding a CSU member...
Germany is preparing to have a woman federal president. CDU, under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, gives in for the first time the highest function of the CSU party, smaller. With Bavarian Ilse Aigner, it is likely to impose a new style, comment rnd.de...
Bavarian politician Ilse Eigner is likely to become the next president of Germany - the first woman in this post in the history of the country. Two high-profile conservatives briefed on the situation spoke on the condition of anonymity, Politico writes. According to officials, the conservative bloc of German Chancellor Friedrich Mertz and the left-centrist Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) will promote Aigner to the post of Prime Minister…
Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz' party agreed to support Merkel's former minister's name
Ilse Aigner was Federal Minister of Agricultural Economics under Angela Merkel and since 2013 a member of the Bavarian parliament.
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