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Armin Laschet was first elected to the German Bundestag in 1994. He has served as the Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and has held a number of leadership positions within the party, including Chairman of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia from 2005 to 2012 and Secretary-General of the CDU from 2012 to 2017.