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Prime Minister Weil (SPD) after winning the election
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After the state elections in Lower Saxony, the SPD and the Greens want to start their talks on forming a government on Thursday.
He expects a quick agreement on "in-depth negotiations," said Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) on Monday evening in Hanover on the sidelines of his party's committee meetings.
According to his presentation, the coalition talks in specialist groups could start at the beginning of next week.
According to Weil, the formation of the coalition should be completed by the constitutive session of the new Lower Saxony state parliament on November 8th.
"I think we have to work as quickly and efficiently as possible to get a new state government," said the SPD state chief.
Among other things, he referred to the need to adopt a supplementary budget for state-owned aid programs in the energy crisis.
Everything has to go "very quickly".
On Monday evening, on the sidelines of their committee deliberations in Hanover, the Greens also confirmed a “preliminary talk” with the SPD on Thursday and confirmed their willingness to form a “state government of awakening” with them.
In view of the concerns of many people about the winter, they will "get a state rescue package on the way as quickly as possible in addition to the federal aid," emphasized co-lead candidate Julia Hamburg.
According to preliminary results, the SPD clearly won Sunday's state elections with 33.4 percent.
The CDU, which previously governed as a junior partner in a coalition with the SPD, only achieved 28.1 percent.
The Greens came to 14.5 percent, the AfD to 10.9 percent.
The FDP missed the re-entry into the state parliament with 4.7 percent.
With 2.7 percent, the left failed again at the five percent hurdle.
Red-Green has a comfortable absolute majority in the new state parliament.
Both the SPD and the Greens regard a new red-green alliance as a desirable option and campaigned for it during the election campaign.
Both governed together in Hanover between 2013 and 2017.
However, a new edition of red-green failed in 2017 due to the majority situation.
The SPD then went into a grand coalition with the CDU.
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