Overview

• Former CDU general secretary Peter Tauber argued the decade‑old barrier has failed and warned the party’s survival is at risk if it refuses majorities that the AfD might also support.
• Conservative voices including Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and Andreas Rödder backed a strategic rethink, while top CDU figures Daniel Günther and Karin Prien rejected any opening toward the AfD.
• In Steinhöfel, an AfD member and a Linke member formed a joint council faction called ‘Vernunft und Verantwortung,’ prompting the local Linke to seek the expulsion of its representative.
• In Prenzlau, AfD district chief Felix Teichner said AfD and CDU actors explored understandings and the AfD backed CDU-affiliated mayoral candidate Marek Wöller-Beetz, who denied being a mayor “of AfD grace.”
• Brandenburg CDU general secretary Gordon Hoffmann said there were no deals or coalition-like cooperation with the AfD and affirmed the party’s resolution barring such arrangements, as the CDU presidium prepares to discuss strategy on Sunday.