(S+) Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Olaf Lies: »I Wish Myself a Strong CDU Chancellor«

Lower Saxony's new Prime Minister Olaf Lies sees the SPD in a serious crisis. He calls for the defeat in the Bundestag election to be worked out. What he expects of the Federal Government – and why his family does not move to Hanover.

Following his election as Minister-President of Lower Saxony, Olaf Lies (SPD) is calling for an investigation into his party's "disastrous" election results. "The SPD is in a serious crisis," Lies told "Spiegel," adding that this cannot be ignored. The SPD achieved a historically poor result of 16.4 percent in the federal election. "We have to ask ourselves," the Minister-President said, "did we focus on the right issues, did we offer the right …