Frank-Walter Steinmeier Elected President of Germany

BELGRADE - Former German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was elected the country's president on Sunday. Steinmeier, nominated by the ruling coalition, was supported by 931 members of the country's Federal Convention, which is a special body comprising 630 members of the Bundestag and of the same number of representatives of Germany's states, while Christoph Butterwegge from the Alternative for Germany's (AfD) party, who finished second, gathered the support of just 128 voters.

The fact that the Federal Convention is formed by the country's lawmakers and representatives of regional parliaments gives a chance to predict the results of the vote before the event takes place. Ahead of the Sunday vote, Steinmeier was expected to win the presidency, as his Social Democratic Party (SPD) had support of 384 delegates in the Federal Convention and Christian Democratic Union ...