federal state government election in Germany

Last Sunday there was election day in two federal states of Germany: Hesse and Lower-Saxony.
The results were really interesting:

- the conservative party lost tremendously: 12%points of their votes in Hesse and 5.6%points in Lower-Saxony

- in Hesse "The Left"party is in the federal state government (Landtag) for the first time! Usually the left party has more support in Eastern Germany.
In Hesse they got 5.1% of the votes and in Lower-Saxony even 7.1% (+6.6points!)

- "The Liberals" (FDP) in hesse have their best result since 38 years!


The interesting thing now will be the popular game of "coalition-poker"....which party will pair up with whom?!

In Hesse conservatives and democrats have the same number of seats in the Landtag, so to get the majority in decisions that are up for vote they need the votes of the other parties. This can lead to very funny results like the so called "traffic-light-coalition" (red-green-yellow / dem.-green-lib.) or the famous "Jamaica-coalition" (yellow-black-green / lib.-con.-green).

.....well I am excited about which coalitions will develop, because those "people" are deciding important things like the tuition for students in that particular state...