Kinkel to Lead German Party
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MUENSTER, Germany — Germany’s Free Democrats (FDP) elected Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel as chairman Friday, only two years after he joined the party.
Kinkel, 56, was unopposed and won 545 out of 622 votes in the race to succeed retiring chairman Otto Lambsdorff.
Delegates said the FDP had no choice but to pick Kinkel after his main rival, Juergen Moellemann, quit as economics minister last January over an influence-peddling scandal.
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