Germany’s Parliament elects new Speaker
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Germany’s newly elected Parliament held its first meeting on Tuesday and elected a lawmaker from the centre-left Social Democratic Party as speaker of the 736-member Lower House, or Bundestag.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attended the session although she is no longer a lawmaker. She sat in the visitor stands of Parliament. Ms. Merkel’s Union bloc finished behind the Social Democrats in Germany’s federal election last month.
“The citizens are looking to us, and their expectations of Parliament are rightly high,” Wolfgang Schaeuble, the previous Speaker, said. “We all should continue to do everything we can to meet their expectations.”
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