The secret ballot in Magdeburg that made AfD hardliner Tobias Rausch Landtagspräsident with four votes more than AfD and BSW hold drove Berlin politics. The SPD staged a protest march to Bebelplatz where Defence Minister Pistorius called an 'einzigartiger Tabubruch'; Haseloff vowed not to let the AfD ruin the state while Chancellor Merz criticised the vote and warned against a left government in Berlin. A Spiegel poll showing a majority considered his chancellorship failed sharpened talk of 'Schockstarre' in the Union ahead of the coalition committee.
At midday the arrest of former BND chief August Hanning on espionage suspicion moved forward with a judge ordering pretrial custody.
By evening the third anniversary of October 7 took over, with survivor accounts, a solidarity rally in Stuttgart and a divided Berlin commemoration where pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanted "Intifada Revolution", clashed with police and made arrests.