Overview
- CDU and SPD leadership bodies and caucuses voted unanimously for Schulze, and the FDP state board also approved the switch with some dissent while recommending its parliamentary group support him.
- Reiner Haseloff agreed to step down only after written commitments to continue the CDU–SPD–FDP coalition under the existing contract with no changes to portfolio distribution.
- Sven Schulze said a Landtag vote could take place at the end of January, with January 28 under consideration.
- No major cabinet reshuffle is planned, and Finance Minister Michael Richter is expected to temporarily handle administration in the Economics Ministry as Schulze moves to the State Chancellery.
- Coalition partners frame the move as a bid for stability as recent surveys placed the AfD near 40 percent and well ahead of the CDU.