Overview
- Pankow Greens selected Sunčica Klaas over Stefan Gelbhaar for Berlin’s 2026 Abgeordnetenhaus constituency 6 by 179 to 83, with five abstentions.
- The outcome denies Gelbhaar a safe direct mandate in the stronghold seat, leaving only a potential path via the state party list.
- At a Brandenburg state congress, AfD leader René Springer declared the goal of an absolute majority and a sole government, even as the state branch is classified by the domestic intelligence service as firmly right‑wing extremist.
- Green leaders in Kiel apologized after a building-committee motion advanced with a decisive AfD vote, calling the episode a serious error.
- Brandenburg’s CDU re-elected Jan Redmann as state chair with 71.9 percent support, and Thuringia’s FDP elected Torsten Klöppel as its new state leader.