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Friedrich Merz has announced that he will propose Ilse Aigner as a candidate for the federal presidential election on January 30th. The decision was announced at a dinner with the CDU leadership in Berlin.
Chancellor and CDU leader Friedrich Merz has officially announced that he will propose to the party's top committees on Monday that the President of the Bavarian State Parliament, Ilse Aigner (CSU), as a candidate for the federal presidential election on January 30th. Merz made this comment at a dinner with the CDU leadership in Berlin, as the German Press Agency learned from party circles.
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