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Sunday, February 12, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, February 12, 2017
‘Anti-Trump’ Steinmeier elected Germany’s new president
Billed as Germany’s “anti-Trump”, Germany’s former foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the center-left Social Democrats was elected Sunday as the country’s ceremonial president in a vote held in the national parliament.
Steinmeier, 61, was voted in as head of state for a five-year term with 931 out of 1,239 valid votes by a special Federal Assembly, made up of lawmakers and state deputies as well as artists, writers and other citizens.
–AFP
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