🔻The German news agency reported that the right-wing Alternative for Germany party, named Thomas Berthold — the former defender of Germany’s national football team and the 1990 World Cup winner — as the country’s presidential candidate. The German presidential election will be held on Saturday, January 30, 2027, on 10 Bahman 1405.

🔹Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, the party’s leaders, said in a message on X that the 62-year-old man is “a very suitable option for the presidency of all Germans as a world champion without party affiliation”: “Germany needs a president who is truly beyond political parties and creates a renewed sense of national unity.”

🔹Chrupalla added that Berthold is a well-known and popular figure and, during the coronavirus pandemic, “regardless of personal losses,” stood up against the government’s harmful policies for dealing with the coronavirus.

🔹Chrupalla also referred to Berthold’s championship at the 1990 World Cup in Italy. The former Germany national team player has 62 international caps and played for Stuttgart and Bayern Munich.

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