Alde, the liberal grouping in the EU parliament, chose Germany’s Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann on Wednesday as its lead candidate for the European elections in June. The 66-year-old member of Germany’s Free Democrats (FDP), which is the minority party in the three-way coalition government, is currently chairwoman of the German parliament’s Defence Committee. Delegates of Alde (the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) voted for Strack-Zimmermann in a meeting in Brussels, it said on X, formerly Twitter. Strack-Zimmermann thanked her party colleagues on X. “Liberals are anchored into th…