Lower Saxony election
Nouripour hopes the “decision backlog” will end
Julia Willie Hamburg, the Green Party’s top candidate in the state elections, celebrates the election result with Omid Nouripour. photo
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Lower Saxony has voted. The traffic light partners SPD and Greens can be satisfied. The FDP missed entering the state parliament. The AfD is growing. reactions.
After the Lower Saxony elections, Green Party leader Omid Nouripour is hoping for an end to the “decision backlog” in the previous grand coalition in the federal state. “We had a Groko in Lower Saxony, they didn’t decide,” he said on NDR-Info.
After the good performance of the Greens, in coalition talks with the SPD they would attach particular importance to the topics of traffic change, social affairs and children’s concerns. “People are under pressure and have great concerns in these times,” emphasized Nouripour.
He regretted the missed entry into the state parliament of the FDP: “It is worrying that the FDP did not make it.” At the same time, it is depressing that the AfD has achieved such a good result. The answer to the protest is good politics, he emphasized.
According to the preliminary final result, the Social Democrats, with the incumbent Prime Minister Stephan Weil, received 33.4 percent of the votes. The CDU came second with 28.1 percent. This is followed by the Greens with 14.5 percent and the AfD with 10.9 percent. Both the FDP with 4.7 percent and the left with 2.7 percent miss out on entering the state parliament in Hanover.