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From the BZ editorial team
In the state elections in Lower Saxony, Prime Minister Stephan Weil’s SPD once again became the strongest party.
According to the 6 p.m. forecasts from ARD and ZDF, the Social Democrats are ahead of the CDU with top candidate Bernd Althusmann, despite losses.
According to the ARD forecast, the Social Democrats received 33.5 percent of the votes in the polls on Sunday, putting them ahead of the CDU led by top candidate and Deputy Prime Minister Bernd Althusmann, who got 27.5 percent.
The Greens came in third with 14 percent, ahead of the AfD with 11.5 percent, while the FDP with five percent had to tremble about getting back into the state parliament in Hanover and the left with two and a half percent failed again at the five percent hurdle.
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