Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats have agreed to back Bavarian politician Ilse Aigner, head of Bavaria’s state parliament, for Germany’s presidency, according to German media reports. Aigner belongs to the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union; if elected, she would be Germany’s first female president. The backing follows weeks of tension between the parties.
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