The results of Sunday’s election in the German state of Lower Saxony have raised concerns and questions for one of the parties that performed poorly but is represented in the federal government coalition. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) won the regional elections in the state. Lower Saxony was led by the SPD in a coalition with the conservative Christian Democrats but state premier Stephan Weil was aiming for an alliance with the Greens this time around. The two parties – plus the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) – form Scholz’s government at the federal level. However, the FDP loo…