Overview
- Two media-state treaties to streamline ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio and tighten youth protection face a Brandenburg vote in the week after next.
- The BSW federal board formally opposes both texts, warning of “censorship through the back door” in the youth-protection provisions and calling the reforms insufficient.
- Brandenburg BSW leader Niels-Olaf Lüders defends voicing doubts and says the faction is considering consequences for the coalition without seeking to endanger it.
- SPD lawmakers plan to back the treaties as a bloc after cabinet approval, while BSW MPs Sven Hornauf and Christian Dorst have signaled they will vote no, leaving the coalition’s narrow majority at risk.
- The CDU says it will decide on substance rather than serve as a routine vote supplier and indicates it assumes the coalition will support the agreements.