German state moving 30,000 PCs to Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
(blog.documentfoundation.org)
There were interoperability issues on the federal level, but I'm with you, lobbying must have played a major role in reverting the migration.
At the time, there were also press releases mentioning increasingly slow support response times and missing features, but since (at least according to my knowledge) no stats on that have ever been published, it's hard to tell how much of those were opinion pieces (with the interviews potentially being non-representative).