Fallout from the secret election of AfD hardliner Tobias Rausch as Landtagspräsident in Magdeburg still set the morning agenda. Papers counted four votes beyond AfD and BSW, speculated over five CDU names, reported CDU deputies demanding premier Sven Schulze resign and noted calls to elect AfD's Ulrich Siegmund as minister-president. Chancellor Merz's suggestion of a possible false-flag operation drew rebukes as a conspiracy theory.
By midday attention moved to Berlin, where Linke, Greens and SPD signed an antisemitism agreement committing to Israel's right to exist and agreed exploratory talks toward red-green-red, with outlets printing the text and debating its enforceability and lack of alternatives.
Overnight reports of one of Russia's heaviest air attacks on Ukraine with 28 dead, the Literature Nobel for Anne Carson and two deadly police operations in Tuttlingen and Berngau filled the margins.