Ilse Aigner, a rising star in the conservative Christian Social Union, is set to become Germany's new agriculture minister.
The 43-year-old lawmaker will succeed Horst Seehofer. He has left the federal government to take become the governor of Bavaria and the CSU leader.
The CSU is the Bavaria-only sister party to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
It holds two posts in Merkel's 16-member Cabinet _ a coalition of the two conservative parties with the center-left Social Democrats.
Seehofer said Thursday that Aigner "grew up with agriculture and will be a good minister."
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