Overview
- With the Bundestag expected to reject a recount on December 18 after a committee’s earlier dismissal, the BSW says it will file a case with the Federal Constitutional Court.
- An Infratest dimap survey for RBB shows the BSW collapsing to 7% in Brandenburg, with the SPD at 22%, the AfD at 35% and the CDU at 14%.
- BSW state chair Friederike Benda called on defectors Jouleen Gruhn and André von Ossowski to surrender their mandates, a demand both rejected.
- Of four MPs who left the party but stayed in the Brandenburg caucus, Reinhard Simon reversed his exit and Melanie Matzies has rejoined, leaving two still outside the party.
- Rumors persist that the SPD may pivot to a CDU partnership in Brandenburg, with reports that legal pathways for such a switch have been examined.