A constructive vote of no confidence by the AfD against Bodo Ramelow acts like a catalyst for a minority government after the failed dissolution of the Thuringian state parliament. Because the Prime Minister of the Left Party is firmly in the saddle as long as an opposing candidate has no chance of an absolute majority. Nobody, including the AfD parliamentary group, will seriously believe that a right-wing extremist will find such a majority. But what does the Björn Höckes group gain from demonstrating its own hopelessness and demonstrating to all other groups that the only way out, a minority government, makes sense?
The losers in a minority government are the CDU and FDP. On the one hand, because they do not co-govern, on the other hand, because they keep coming under pressure to support Ramelow - otherwise it is said that they, like Thomas Kemmerich at one time, are on the side of the AfD or are jeopardizing the stability of democracy. If they tolerate or support Ramelow, it will mean that they are making common cause with the Left Party.
Since only the factions of the CDU and FDP, or better said: the respective parts with a strategic mind, have an interest in escaping this dilemma, there is always an excuse that the dissolution of the state parliament and early elections are out of the question. In this way, the interests of two parties are served: the Left Party, because it provides the government, and the AfD, because it can wear down the middle class. Both are also due to a weakening, especially the CDU.