The election victory of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) in the north-western state of Lower Saxony will also have implications on a federal level, according to SPD state premier Stephan Weil. “Those weren’t really just regional elections,” Weil said in the state capital of Hanover on Sunday evening, after exit polls put his party as the strongest force. “On the contrary, it sometimes seemed as if others were secretely holding federal election campaign. But in that case this result might be a signal to our friends in Berlin: It’s worth fighting,” he said. At federal level…