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Thuringia MPs to Dissolve BSW Group and Re‑Form Under New Party

The bid to preserve the Brombeer coalition raises urgent legal questions about fraktion status as well as state funding.

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Thomas Schulze, BSW-Spitzenkandidat in Sachsen-Anhalt, am Wahlabend in Magdeburg
Die Thüringer Finanzministerin Katja Wolf (BSW, r) und Sigrid Hupach (l), Vorsitzende der BSW-Fraktion

Overview

  • On Sunday former BSW regional figures led by Deputy Minister‑President Katja Wolf registered a new party called Thüringen.Gerecht and named Wolf its chair.
  • The remaining BSW Landtag group plans to vote this Wednesday to dissolve the old fraktion and immediately found a new Thüringen.Gerecht parliamentary faction to continue backing Minister‑President Mario Voigt’s government.
  • The move follows a rapid exodus: the interim BSW group now counts twelve MPs but only two remain formal BSW party members, creating legal uncertainty over whether it still meets rules for fraktion status.
  • The AfD has formally asked the Landtag to strip the BSW group of its fraktion rights and stop its public funding, and BSW organs in other states have demanded new state elections and condemned the defectors.
  • Fraktion recognition matters because it decides parliamentary rights, staff and public financing, so this week’s Landtag sessions will determine whether the new party can preserve ministerial posts and the coalition’s working majority.