New elected German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C) is offered flowers by SPD parliamentary group leader (C) Thomas Opperman, as outgoing President Joachim Gauck (L) watches and German Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel (3rdL) applauds among others after 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)
