In its second term, the red–green coalition lost several very important state elections, for example in Lower Saxony where Schröder was the prime minister from 1990 to 1998.
紅綠聯盟在第二任期中，於一些重要的邦選舉中落敗，例如施洛德曾在1990年至1998年擔任邦總理的下薩克森。