Because before third term
Red-Green agrees on a comeback in Lower Saxony
10/31/2022, 4:01 p.m
In Lower Saxony, red-green is facing a new edition: SPD and Greens reach an agreement in their coalition negotiations – the coalition agreement is to be presented on Tuesday. Prime Minister Stephan Weil of the SPD is aiming for his third term.
Three weeks after the state elections in Lower Saxony, the SPD and the Greens have concluded their coalition negotiations. It was “managed to bring the negotiations to a successful conclusion today,” said the two national associations. The coalition agreement should therefore be presented on Tuesday.
SPD and Greens began negotiations shortly after the October 9 election. Both parties had already announced during the election campaign that they wanted to form a coalition. They governed Lower Saxony together between 2013 and 2017.
The current and designated future Prime Minister Stephan Weil from the SPD is to be confirmed in office in the constitutive session of the state parliament on Tuesday next week. Before that, party congresses have to approve the result of the coalition negotiations. The SPD meets on Saturday and the Greens on Sunday.
The SPD won the state election with 33.4 percent. The CDU, which previously governed as a junior partner in a grand coalition with the SPD, came to 28.1 percent. With 14.5 percent, the Greens became the third strongest force ahead of the AfD, which achieved eleven percent. FDP and left did not get into the state parliament.