Overview
- Minister-President Dietmar Woidke declared the SPD–BSW coalition over shortly after Robert Crumbach quit the party and parliamentary group, and the SPD will now explore cooperation with the CDU.
- BSW leader Fabio De Masi accused Crumbach of orchestrating a planned break he labeled a 'Putsch von Potsdam', saying he lied to the party, organized supporters, and prepared the split.
- Crumbach rejected the allegations as nonsense and said he had urged De Masi to come to Potsdam to mediate disputes within the faction.
- De Masi said the BSW is shifting into 'attack mode', will not join any government formed solely to keep the AfD out, and called for non-partisan 'competence cabinets' in eastern states.
- After a wave of exits, nine BSW lawmakers remain; the reduced faction voted with the AfD to dissolve the Landtag, the motion failed to reach a two-thirds majority, and Woidke cited the vote as validation for ending the coalition.