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Brandenburg Coalition Wobbles After Four BSW Deputies Quit Party, Forcing CDU-Assisted Vote on Media Pacts

BSW turmoil over broadcasting reforms has split the faction, prompting a no-confidence push against its leader.

Robert Crumbach im Hauptausschuss des Brandenburger Landtags
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Die Fraktion vom Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) sitzt geschlossen auf ihren Plätzen im Landtag
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Overview

  • Four BSW lawmakers left the Wagenknecht party but said they will remain in the BSW parliamentary group and continue to back the SPD partnership, citing growing authoritarian tendencies.
  • A committee advanced two media-state treaties only with CDU votes after SPD and remaining BSW members could not muster their own majority, with a full Landtag vote slated for November 19–20.
  • The breakaway deputies filed a no-confidence motion against BSW faction chief Niels-Olaf Lüders, and André von Ossowski publicly urged a leadership change.
  • Internal divisions were stark as BSW Finance Minister Robert Crumbach supported the treaties alongside SPD and CDU, while Lüders voted no together with the AfD.
  • Minister-President Dietmar Woidke said the coalition stands and pressed BSW to resolve disputes quickly, while early elections appear unlikely due to the two‑thirds threshold to dissolve the Landtag.