Overview
- The AfD says it will table a Landtag motion next week to press SPD Minister-President Dietmar Woidke to seek a confidence vote.
- Woidke has rejected calls to pose the question of confidence, stating the government stands and continues to work.
- The SPD/BSW coalition holds a two-seat majority, yet BSW deputy Sven Hornauf has broken ranks before and BSW member Reinhard Simon will miss the next plenary after an accident.
- Opposition arithmetic could be tight as the AfD expects one member to be absent, SPD urges a pairing agreement, and the CDU refuses, arguing the coalition must show its own majority.
- Two BSW lawmakers who had quit, Reinhard Simon and Melanie Matzies, have returned, while the party reshaped leadership at its Magdeburg congress and Sahra Wagenknecht vowed legal action over alleged federal vote-count errors.