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Bavaria’s speaker tipped to become Germany’s first woman president

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“Bavaria’s speaker tipped to become Germany’s first woman president”

GERMAN Chancellor Friedrich Merz (left) shakes hands with Ilse Aigner, the speaker of Bavaria’s state parliament, upon arrival at the Christian Social Union party’s congress in Munich.—AFP BERLIN: Bavarian politician Ilse Aigner is expected to become Germany’s next president in 2027, the first woman to serve as its head of state, conservative ruling party sources said on Friday. Aigner, 61, now the speaker of the southern state’s regional assembly, would replace outgoing President Frank-Walter…

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