Klingbeil: Black and yellow voted out in North Rhine-Westphalia

Created: 05/15/2022Updated: 05/15/2022 7:38 p.m

Lars Klingbeil, SPD Federal Chairman, speaks.

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According to party leader Lars Klingbeil, the SPD is ready for coalition talks in North Rhine-Westphalia.

According to the first projections, the outcome of the state elections is not yet certain, said Klingbeil on Sunday on ZDF.

One thing is certain: "Black and yellow were voted out tonight." Now the count must show whether red-green and thus a change of policy is possible.

Berlin - "These will now also be weeks in which we hope to negotiate what is best for the citizens in NRW," said Klingbeil.

But first of all, a lot is unclear.

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Klingbeil also made it clear on ARD that the SPD hopes for the formation of a red-green state government, despite the historically poor result.

"We have often seen that governments are formed from second place," said the SPD leader.

"If we have the chance to do that, then we offer the Greens quite clearly that we want to form a coalition that stands for affordable housing, for the climate-neutral conversion of industry, for the health system, for education, for the best Get North Rhine-Westphalia out.” dpa