Overview
- SPD general secretary Kurt Fischer asked BSW state leader Friederike Benda to confirm that each BSW deputy stands 100 percent behind the government and the coalition contract.
- BSW faction leaders Nils-Olaf Lüders and Falk Peschel had circulated a December 19 press release urging certain colleagues to resign or leave the group.
- Deputies André von Ossowski and Jouleen Gruhn say they received no such resignation request, highlighting conflicting internal communications.
- Von Ossowski cited a faction rule requiring secret votes on recommendations to relinquish mandates and said he will raise the issue at the January 6 faction meeting.
- The governing bloc’s arithmetic remains precarious, as the coalition could lose a formal majority if the two disputed deputies leave the faction despite pledging to support the coalition.