Government crisis in Brandenburg: And suddenly Dietmar Woidke's coalition is in danger

The rebellion in the BSW faction put the SPD-led state government in Brandenburg under pressure. This chaos shows how fragile the construction of power in the East is.

November 12, 2025, 20:35

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Dietmar Woidke returned from England with a Rolls-Royce deal in his trunk. But things are heating up in Brandenburg: party resignations, a vote of no confidence, a government crisis. Conflict over media reform sparked a power struggle within the coalition. Wagenknecht resigned, the BSW faction split. The CDU is positioning itself for a possible coalition. The dam against the AfD is in danger of breaking, the party is reaching its breaking point.

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Condemned to rule together: Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD) and his finance minister Robert Crumbach of BSW
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This could be a good week for Dietmar Woidke Brandenburg. Just this Wednesday, the SPD Prime Minister returned from England, bringing with him an agreement with Rolls-Royce to invest in the factory in Dahlewitz: expansion, jobs, recovery. Woidke, elected head of government for the third time on the promise that only he could guarantee prosperity, stability and security in a federal state that was turning the AfD increasingly blue, wanted to seize the moment: Look, run.