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BERLIN, Oct 26 — Germany’s outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel watched from a visitors’ gallery on Tuesday as a new, more diverse and younger parliament elected a woman from the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) as parliamentary president. Merkel, 67, who did not stand for re-election in the...

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BERLIN, Oct 26 — Germany’s outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel watched from a visitors’ gallery on Tuesday as a new, more diverse and younger parliament elected a woman from the centre-left Social Democrats as parliamentary president.

The SPD, who finished first in the election, are in talks to form a coalition government with the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats by December 6 that would oust Merkel’s conservatives after 16 years in power. “Responsibility is still not equally shared between everyone and I see this as one of my special tasks as Bundestag president,” Blas said in her first speech as parliamentary president. “Diversity is an opportunity for all of us in this house, but also outside it.”

The SPD, Greens and FDP are depicting their coalition as a new start for Germany that would have a focus on modernising Europe’s largest economy and combating climate change.

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