(FILES) In this file photo taken on July 25, 2018 Ilse Aigner, President of the Bavarian State Parliament (CSU), arrives for the opening ceremony of the annual Bayreuth Festival featuring the music of Richard Wagner at the theatre in Bayreuth, southern Germany. The current president of the Bavarian state parliament, 61-year-old Ilse Aigner (CSU), is being tipped to become Germany's first female president, according to sources close to the Christian conservative union. (Photo by Christof STACHE / AFP via Getty Images)