Bavaria's Aigner Tipped to Become Germany's First Woman President
Reports say the CDU will back Ilse Aigner, giving the Bavarian politician broad support for a largely ceremonial post that will be chosen by 1,260 electors.
- 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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Ilse Aigner was Federal Minister of Agricultural Economics under Angela Merkel and since 2013 a member of the Bavarian parliament.
The current president of the Bavarian parliament, Ilse Aigner (CSU), aged 61, could become the first woman president in Germany, according to close sources of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), reports AFP, taken over by Agerpres. Its nomination is expected to be confirmed on Monday, at a meeting of the CDU leadership, the party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Confirmation ...
The 61-year-old CSU politician is now the president of the Bavarian parliament, and his most serious political virtue is considered to be the way he deals with the far-right AfD in the state legislature.
The name of the candidate chosen by the CDU of Chancellor Friedrich Merz to succeed the Social Democrat Frank-Walter Steinmeier was vented on Friday by several German media. On 30 January 2027, the 630 deputies of the Bundestag and an equal number of delegates appointed by the Länder parliaments will take part in the election.
The German governing parties are nominating Ilse Aigner (CSU) as the new Federal President. The nomination will be formally announced on Monday, but has leaked through virtually all German media. It would be the first time a woman holds the highest office in Germany. Aigner has long been able to count on the support of the CSU and SPD, but Chancellor Merz (CDU) has blocked her nomination until now. He is now said to have backed her after all. …
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