Overview
- Wilke and SPD state parliamentary leader Björn Lüttmann confirmed his formal party membership on Tuesday.
- The minister said the move signals cohesion within the governing team and referenced uncertainty at coalition partner BSW.
- Wilke had been non-partisan since leaving The Left in June 2024 after earlier serving as a Left party lawmaker from 2014 to 2018.
- He became interior and municipal affairs minister in May following the resignation of Katrin Lange.
- In Potsdam politics he is viewed as a possible successor to Minister-President Dietmar Woidke, a status reporters note is unchanged by the move.