Ilse Aigner, speaker of the Bavarian state parliament, belongs to the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) party.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will nominate Bavarian politician Ilse Aigner for Germany’s next president, which would make her the country’s first female head of state.

Merz made the announcement at a dinner for leaders of his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Sunday.

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Aigner, speaker of the Bavarian state parliament, belongs to the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of the CDU.

If her nomination is confirmed at a CDU and CSU meeting on Monday, she would almost certainly be formally elected.

According to German political practice, coalition…