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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The Green Bundestag member Danyal Bayaz is the new finance minister in Baden-Württemberg.

Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) decided in favor of the 37-year-old from Heidelberg, the German press agency learned on Sunday in Stuttgart from government circles.

The former management consultant has made a name for himself in the Bundestag as a financial expert and representative of the Greens in the committee of inquiry into the scandal surrounding the financial services provider Wirecard.

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