Overview

• Dietmar Woidke secured re-election as SPD state chairman with 84.9 percent support, down from 90.8 percent two years ago.
• Former Interior Minister Katrin Lange resigned her leadership bid after accusing party colleagues of intrigue in an open letter and will remain in the state parliament.
• Ines Hübner and Wiebke Papenbrock were elected as deputy state chairs, with Papenbrock stepping in for Lange on the party ticket.
• Woidke advocated for initiating an AfD ban procedure if courts confirm the party’s classification as a right-wing extremist group and the Jusos formally backed this stance.
• The SPD faces internal reckoning over debate culture and must balance unity with efforts to counter right-wing extremism.