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BERLIN, MAY 23. Horst Koehler, a former head of the International Monetary Fund who advocates bolder economic reforms in Germany, was elected today as the country's ninth post-war President.

Nominated by opposition conservatives, Koehler defeated Gesine Schwan, a university professor backed by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Government, who sought to become Germany's first woman head of state.

AP

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