Parteiquerelen: Brombeer-Koalition bröckelt: Zwei BSW-Leute scheren aus
Die BSW-Fraktion im Thüringer Landtag hat sich mit sehr großer Mehrheit für die Fortsetzung der Koalition mit CDU und SPD entschieden. Zwei Abgeordnete fehlten. Und melden sich jetzt zu Wort.
Erfurt - The Thuringian Brombeer-Koalition, comprising CDU, SPD and BSW, is crumbling. The two BSW representatives, Anke Wirsing and Sven Küntzel, have decided not to continue supporting Minister-President Mario Voigt of the CDU party. Now, Thuringia has a premier who "currently only leads a minority government, because we two BSW members can no longer carry him," Wirsing and Küntzel explained.
This is the first Brombeer-Koalition in Germany, having obtained only 44 out of 88 seats in the Erfurt Landtag. From the start, they have relied on indirect support from the oppositional left faction, as they did not want to depend on the largest oppositional faction, the AfD. Without the two BSW representatives, the coalition cannot hold together.
If the left faction joins, the remaining coalition members could still achieve majority status. The escalation stems from a conflict within the BSW. The party leadership asked Thuringian party members to stop supporting Voigt, as TU Chemnitz revoked his doctorate. Despite this, 13 out of 15 BSW representatives opted to stay in the Brombeer-Koalition during a faction meeting on Monday.
Wirsing and Küntzel were absent during the decision-making process. Wirsing is a member of the BSW federal board and had previously supported the abandonment of the Brombeer-Koalition at the party level.
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