Theleadership gap is being filled by anew generation, includingPhilipp Rösler, the 36-year-oldeconomicsministerofLower Saxony, born inVietnam and adopted byGerman parents.
The businessman and former Economics Minister finished third with 13 percent of the vote.
VOA: standard.2010.02.01
Mr. MORAD SZEDADINOV(ph) (ex-Political Prisoner): (Through Translator) It is extremely important that he raises these questions with human rights, democracy development, torture, and specifically a couple of prisoners, specifically, former MinisterofEconomics whose health condition is critical at the moment.
He was hastily drafted into Bonn, after only weeks as economicsministerof the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, to help his new master fend off the advance of Oskarism.