CDU faction leader Toepffer announces resignation
Created: 2022-10-09Updated: 2022-10-09 7:35 p.m
Dirk Toepffer is standing on the stage to the right of Bernd Althusmann.
© Hauke-Christian Dittrich/dpa
Lower Saxony's CDU parliamentary group leader Dirk Toepffer announced his resignation after his party's defeat in the state elections.
This was confirmed by a group spokesman for the German Press Agency in Hanover on Sunday evening.
"It was not possible to create a mood of change in Lower Saxony," Toepffer had previously told the "Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung".
Hanover – The 57-year-old entered the state parliament for the first time in 2008 and has been chairman of the CDU parliamentary group since 2017.
dpa