Overview
- Four deputies quit the BSW party but remained in the Landtag faction and were stripped of speaking rights for the three‑day sitting starting Wednesday.
- The dispute centers on two media‑state treaties on broadcasting reform and youth media protection, with a BSW faction majority opposing them while Finance Minister Robert Crumbach says he will vote in favor.
- Deputy faction leader Christian Dorst publicly urged Crumbach to leave the faction, calling him a good finance minister but unfit as a faction member.
- BSW state leaders and Ministerpräsident Dietmar Woidke insist the coalition can keep working, yet the coalition may lack its own majority as the four ex‑party deputies plan to leave the chamber, and the CDU says it will back the treaties.
- Reporting outlines possible next steps, including defections that could enable an SPD–CDU majority and cost BSW its cabinet posts, while the turbulence also echoes broader strain on Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s federal coalition.