Overview
- Party leaders in Brandenburg unanimously approved starting formal coalition negotiations in the coming week.
- Minister-President Dietmar Woidke continues to govern as a minority after ending the SPD/BSW coalition.
- Both sides named their lead negotiators, with Woidke representing the SPD and state chairman Jan Redmann heading the CDU team.
- The Landtag, backed by SPD and CDU votes, rejected a proposal for snap elections last week.
- An Insa survey for the Nordkurier found 68% favor new elections and 54% view an SPD/CDU coalition negatively, as BSW’s Friederike Benda decried a “Putsch in Potsdam” and the SPD blamed internal BSW turmoil.