Brandenburg: BSW loses MPs – coalition and not using a majority | EUROtoday

In addition to Brandenburg’s Finance Minister Robert Crumbach, the BSW misplaced two different MPs on Tuesday. According to a spokesman, these are the MPs Jouleen Gruhn and André von Ossowski.

This lastly escalated the coalition disaster within the state. The SPD and BSW have to date ruled Brandenburg with a slender majority of two votes. After the resignations, the federal government of Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke lacks a governing majority. But the political implications are nonetheless unclear.

After weeks of argument within the BSW parliamentary group, the SPD is demanding a declaration of loyalty to the coalition – from all 14 BSW state parliament members. The BSW stands by the coalition settlement. However, the occasion and parliamentary group leaders had made it clear that they rejected such a dedication as a prerequisite for a coalition committee.

Brandenburg’s Finance Minister Robert Crumbach has now been accepted into the SPD parliamentary group after saying his departure from the BSW. This was achieved unanimously, stated SPD parliamentary group chief Björn Lüttmann on Tuesday in Potsdam. “This vote is an expression of trust and respect for his work and his attitude.”

Finance Minister Crumbach, who can be Deputy Prime Minister, introduced on Monday that he can be leaving the BSW and its parliamentary group. This was preceded by months of inner occasion conflicts throughout the BSW over the occasion’s course and its position throughout the joint state authorities below Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD).

Woidke and Crumbach wish to seem earlier than the general public collectively on Tuesday at 11 a.m. in Potsdam. It is a few “statement on the current political situation,” stated the State Chancellery within the Brandenburg capital. No particulars got.

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