Бавари мужийн парламентын дарга Илзе Айгнерийг ерөнхийлөгчийн сонгуульд нэр дэвшүүлж, эрх баригч намууд дэмжихээ илэрхийллээ.
Христийн нийгмийн холбоо (CSU)-ноос нэр дэвшсэн 61 настай Айгнерийг Христийн ардчилсан холбоо (CDU) болон Социал демократ намын (SPD) удирдлагууд даваа гарагт дэмжсэнээр сонгогдох магадлал нь өндөр байна. Ерөнхийлөгчийг нэгдүгээр сарын 30-нд парламентын тусгай чуулганаар сонгоно. Тус чуулган Үндэсний парламентын доод танхимын 630 гишүүн болон 16 мужийн парламентаас сонгогдсон ижил тооны төлөөлөгчөөс бүрдэх бөгөөд одоогийн ерөнхийлөгч Франк-Вальтер Штайнмайер Үндсэн хуулийн дагуу гурав дахь удаагаа сонгогдох боломжгүй.
Айгнер өөрийгөө улс төрийн туйлшрал нэмэгдэж буй нийгмийг нэгтгэх, “төвийн хүчтэй байр суурийг” төлөөлөх хүн гэж тодорхойлжээ. Түүний хэлснээр, өргөн хүрээний улс төрийн дэмжлэг бүрдэж байгаа нь популист болон хэт даврагч хүчний эсрэг чухал дохио юм. Эрх баригч намууд сонгогчдын олонхийг бүрдүүлэх бол Ногоон намынхан ч түүний нэр дэвшүүлэлтийг нааштай хүлээн авчээ.
Цахилгааны инженер мэргэжилтэй Айгнер 1994 онд Баварийн парламентын гишүүнээр сонгогдож, 2008-2013 онд Ангела Меркелийн засгийн газарт Хөдөө аж ахуйн сайдаар ажилласан. Дараа нь Баварийн Эдийн засаг, Тээврийн сайдаар ажиллаж, найман жилийн өмнөөс мужийн парламентын даргаар ажиллах болжээ. Тэрээр 2019 онд Германы анхны ил тод трансжендер хууль тогтоогчийг дэмжиж байсан бөгөөд харьцангуй либерал үзэлтэй улстөрч гэж үнэлэгддэг.
1949 оноос хойш Германы холбооны бүгд найрамдах улс 12 ерөнхийлөгчтэй байсан бөгөөд бүгд эрэгтэй байв. Ерөнхийлөгчийн алба намын улс төрөөс ангид, голдуу ёслолын болон төлөөллийн үүрэгтэй ч улс төрийн хямралын үед нөлөө үзүүлэх боломжтой. “Германы төлөө альтернатив” (AfD) нам өөрийн нэр дэвшигчийг гаргахаар төлөвлөж байгаа бөгөөд хамтран даргалагч Алис Вайдель Айгнерийг парламентын даргаар ажиллахдаа намын улстөрчийн байр сууриас ангид байж чадаагүй гэж шүүмжилжээ.
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Germany is set to get its first female president after Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party nominated Ilse Aigner, a center-right politician with appeal to liberals, to become the country’s head of state next year.
Aigner presented herself Monday as a unifying figure in an increasingly polarized country, saying that she hopes to represent a “strong center.” She said the broad political support taking shape for her is “an important signal against populist and extremist forces in our country.”
The new head of state will be elected Jan. 30 when a special parliamentary assembly chooses a successor to President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who is constitutionally barred from seeking a third five-year term. It is made up of the 630 members of the national parliament’s lower house and an equal number of delegates from Germany’s 16 state parliaments.
Aigner, 61, is the speaker of Bavaria’s state legislature and hails from the Christian Social Union, the smallest of three parties in the national government and part of Merz’s conservative bloc, which has long pushed her candidacy. After it won official backing Monday from leaders of Merz’s Christian Democratic Union and the center-left Social Democrats, she looks all but assured of election.
The governing parties will have a majority in the assembly that elects the president. Aigner also has received a positive reception from the opposition Greens.
“From my point of view, it is high time for a woman to hold this highest office for the first time,” Merz said as he presented Aigner. He said her background as an electrical engineer would also be a first for a president, reflecting “the reality of millions of people in our country” in manual work.
Aigner has been active in politics since her late teens and was elected to the Bavarian state legislature in 1994. She served as Germany’s agriculture minister from 2008 to 2013 under Chancellor Angela Merkel.
She then served as Bavaria’s economy minister and transport minister before becoming the speaker of the Bavarian state legislature eight years ago. She has a relatively liberal reputation; in her current role, for example, she was supportive of Germany’s first openly transgender lawmaker in 2019.
“I am in politics to overcome divisions, bring people together and also reach those who perhaps feel that they stand on the sidelines,” Aigner said, adding that she stands against “every attack on human dignity.”
Germany’s post-World War II federal republic has had 12 presidents since 1949, all men. Women have held most of the country’s other top jobs.
Merkel was the first female chancellor, from 2005 to 2021. Four women have served as speaker of the lower house of parliament, in protocol terms Germany’s No. 2 official ahead of the chancellor, including incumbent Julia Klöckner.
The president is supposed to be above party politics and usually has a largely ceremonial and representative job, but the head of state can play a part in times of political crisis. Steinmeier, for example, took an unusually active role in nudging rival politicians toward forming a new government after an inconclusive election in 2017.
German politics has become more turbulent since, with rising support for the far-right Alternative for Germany further complicating efforts to form politically cohesive governments.
Alternative for Germany intends to field a candidate of its own. Co-leader Alice Weidel criticized the nomination of Aigner and said that, as parliamentary speaker, she “has proven several times that she cannot set aside the role of party politician.”
