Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed Ilse Egner's nomination for President of Germany on November 9, calling it a historic event. On the same day, German Chancellor and Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union Mertz officially nominated Bavarian State Assembly Speaker Egner to run for the next German president. The latter is a member of the Christian Social Union, a sister party of the CDU. According to Germany's “Time”, Merkel said, “Egner has every chance of being elected, as happened with female candidates in the past... The fact that she was nominated as the first female president in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany makes this decision historic.”

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