Wanting to avoid a costly battle over a presidential pick ahead of the Sept. 24 election, Merkel relented.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the former German foreign minister who was a vocal critic of Donald Trump during the U.S. election, is poised to become the country?s 12th postwar president.
While Merkel steered clear of sharing her views on Trump before his election as president, her top diplomat vociferously derided what he saw as a campaign that broke taboos and threatened trans-Atlantic bonds.
Sigmar Gabriel, the outgoing Social Democratic leader who succeeded Steinmeier as foreign minister, stepped into the void, advocating for Steinmeier as the coalition?s choice.
When Merkel took office in 2005 with the Social Democrats as junior partner, the Schroeder acolyte became foreign minister.
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