Overview
- BSW deputy floor leader Christian Dorst urged Finance Minister Robert Crumbach to leave the parliamentary group, calling him unfit as a faction member despite praising his ministerial work.
- The BSW faction board moved to bar four former party members from speaking in this week’s Landtag session after they quit the party but chose to remain in the group.
- Crumbach said any decision on giving up his mandate is his alone and reiterated he plans to back the media-state treaties, which most of his faction opposes.
- Faction leader Niels-Olaf Lüders said talks with the four ex-members continue and noted that mistrust motions against him and Dorst were narrowly defeated at a crisis meeting.
- Minister-President Dietmar Woidke voiced confidence the SPD–BSW government can continue, while Wednesday’s vote on the treaties may rely on CDU support to pass.