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German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) jokes with German drag Queen Olivia Jones (R) as Claudia Roth of the Greens Party (2ndL) laughs ahead of the presidential election at the Bundesversammlung federal assembly Bundestag (lower house of parliament)on February 12, 2017 in Berlin. Germany's former foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the centre-left Social Democrats was elected as the country's ceremonial president in a vote held in the national parliament. / AFP / Axel Schmidt (Photo credit should read AXEL SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) jokes with German drag Queen Olivia Jones (R) as Claudia Roth of the Greens Party (2ndL) laughs ahead of the presidential election at the Bundesversammlung federal assembly Bundestag (lower house of parliament)on February 12, 2017 in Berlin.

Germany's former foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier of the centre-left Social Democrats was elected as the country's ceremonial president in a vote held in the national parliament. / AFP / Axel Schmidt        (Photo credit should read AXEL SCHMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)