US midterm elections: Klingbeil on midterms – “Now we should do something with it”

Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil is pleased with the outcome of the US midterm elections. But he also has high expectations for future cooperation with the USA.

Vice Chancellor Klingbeil: “Our hand is outstretched and it will always remain so.” Photo: Kay Nietfeld/dpa

Berlin. SPD leader Lars Klingbeil congratulated the US Democrats on the results of the midterm elections - and at the same time called on them to work closely together. He also associates the election result with the wish “that things will now be different and better,” said the Vice Chancellor at the SPD Economic Forum in Berlin. “Now we should do something with it.”

We now have to talk to the Democrats and the “reasonable forces” on the Republican side about how to achieve a trade policy without tariff burdens, how the war in Iran can be ended and energy security restored and how Ukraine can be protected.

“This is a task that we should take on together as transatlantic forces, and that is what I also want from the Democrats in the USA now,” said Klingbeil. “Our hand is outstretched and it always will be.”