🔶 The first woman in the German presidential palace? Ilse Eigner is the candidate to succeed Steinmeier.
Christian Social Party (CSU) politician Ilse Igner from Bavaria may succeed Frank-Walter Steinmeier as President of Germany. According to sources in the Christian Democratic Party (CDU), the leadership of this party has reached an agreement on his candidacy. Accordingly, the Christian Union, made up of the chancellor's Christian Democratic Party and its sister party in Bavaria, the Christian Social Party, plus another member of the ruling coalition, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), plan to nominate the 61-year-old Eigner to the country's top job. The official decision will be made on Monday at the leadership meeting of the Christian Democratic Party.
Support for Aigner has grown in recent days. By the afternoon of Thursday, November 5, seven of the 17 heads of state branches of the Christian Democratic Party supported him. Markus Söder, leader of the Christian Social Party, has been campaigning for him for months, and the Social Democrats have also shown their approval. Friedrich Mertz, Chancellor of Germany and leader of the Christian Democratic Party, has been silent about this news until now.