Activist pastor Joachim Gauck was elected German president by majority
Sunday, paving way the first time a candidate from the former communist
east to be head of state.
Gauck, 72, claimed 991 votes out of 1,232 from a special assembly of MPs
and other dignitaries, parliamentary speaker Norbert Lammert said,
against prominent Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld, 73, who was nominated as a
protest candidate by the far-left party Die Linke.
"What a beautiful Sunday," Gauck said to enthusiastic applause from the
chamber of the glass-domed Reichstag parliament building in central
Berlin after the vote.This is the third presidential election in three
years for Germany after the abrupt resignations of Gauck's two
predecessors.
the third presidential election in three years for Germany after the abrupt resignations of Gauck's two predecessors.Gauck helped drive the peaceful revolution that brought down
communist East Germany and later fought to ensure that the public would
be granted access to the vast stash of files left behind by the despised
Stasi secret police after reunification in 1990. He oversaw the archive
for the next decade.
In a short acceptance speech, he noted that his election fell on the
22nd anniversary of the first free elections in East Germany after the
fall of the Berlin Wall the previous November."After 26 years of dictatorship we were finally able to become
citizens," he said. "I knew then that I would never miss another
election."
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