Local election in Lower Saxony: Lower Saxony has voted - Wolfsburg remains in CDU hands
Under the impression of the VW crisis, six million people in Lower Saxony decided on their local politics. Now there are first results, which are being closely watched in Berlin.
In the recent local elections in Lower Saxony, Germany, millions of people cast their votes. The incumbent mayor of Wolfsburg, Dennis Weilmann from the CDU, secured 50.1% of the vote, narrowly achieving an absolute majority. In Hannover, the state capital, the current mayor Belit Onay from the Greens was leading after more than two-thirds of the votes were counted. The voter turnout was 50.67%, higher than in the previous elections five years ago, with around 6.3 million people eligible to vote.
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