That went terribly wrong: the CDU Lower Saxony and its top candidate Bernd Althusmann failed miserably with an anti-traffic light election campaign. The SPD triumphs and state father Stephan Weil rediscovers an old color combination.
Stephan Weil used today to do his property tax return. They like people like that in Lower Saxony: typically calm, down-to-earth – and obviously competent if half a day was enough for him to deal with the tax madness. After all, Weil had more to do that Sunday: He was elected and he was elected. The SPD man will not only be allowed to remain prime minister, but depending on the current situation, from now on in a coalition that was one of those long believed dead: red-green.