Overview
- Lawmakers voted 36 to 47 against dissolving the Landtag, far short of the two‑thirds threshold of 59 required to trigger new elections in the 88‑seat chamber.
- Several BSW deputies sided with the AfD on the dissolution motion while others stayed away, marking an unusual alignment that broke with the former coalition’s practice.
- Immediately after the vote, BSW legislators Melanie Matzies and Reinhard Simon quit party and caucus, shrinking the group to nine members from the original 14.
- Minister-President Dietmar Woidke is governing in a minority and parties said direct coalition talks between the SPD and CDU are beginning after shifts that give the pairing a working majority.
- An AfD attempt to unseat Landtag vice president Jouleen Gruhn failed; Gruhn and ex-finance minister Robert Crumbach joined the SPD faction, while ministers Britta Müller and Detlef Tabbert left the BSW but remain in office for now.