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BSW Ministers Call for End to Infighting, Return to Governing

SPD ministers report coalition work is continuing smoothly.

Overview

  • Deputy minister-president and finance minister Robert Crumbach urged his party to halt the weeks-long quarrels and focus on substantive work for Brandenburg.
  • Transport minister Detlef Tabbert called for dialogue on RBB and said he would regret losing the two holdouts from the parliamentary group.
  • Four BSW lawmakers left the party on November 11 citing authoritarian tendencies and radicalized positions, triggering a coalition crisis.
  • After talks, Reinhard Simon and Melanie Matzies rejoined, while Jouleen Gruhn and André von Ossowski remain outside but say they still back the coalition.
  • BSW faction leader Niels-Olaf Lüders accused the two holdouts of lying and straying from the party line, and state chair Friederike Benda urged them to relinquish their mandates.