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In the 2010 presidential election, he lost to which candidate of the government coalition?
Angela Merkel
Olaf Scholz
Christian Wulff
Frank-Walter Steinmeier
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Christian Wulff, the former governor of Lower Saxony, defeated Steinmeier in the 2010 election to become Germany's 10th president. Wulff, a member of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), won the election with 62% of the vote in the Federal Convention, a special assembly formed by members of the Bundestag and state legislatures.
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