Parliamentary Assembly Re-elect German President Koehler

German President Horst Koehler has been re-elected for a second five-year term.

Federal and state parliamentarians re-elected Koehler after a challenge from Gesine Schwan of the centre-left Social Democrats, the BBC reported Saturday.

Koehler, 66, is a former head of the International Monetary Fund and a member of the German chancellor's Christian Democratic Union.

Parliament President Norbert Lammert said Koehler won 613 votes from the special parliamentary assembly in the Reichstag to achieve a slim majority. The closest challenger was Schwan, who won 503 votes.

The 1 224-member assembly comprises lower-house politicians and delegates nominated by Germany's 16 state legislatures.

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