Overview
- Delegates in Magdeburg are set to vote on installing EU lawmaker Fabio De Masi at the helm with Amira Mohamed Ali remaining in top leadership and Oliver Ruhnert slated to become general secretary.
- Sahra Wagenknecht will relinquish the federal chair to lead a newly created Grundwertekommission intended to shape the party’s core principles.
- The party will vote on renaming itself to “Bündnis Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftliche Vernunft” while keeping the BSW initials, with implementation proposed for October 1, 2026 after next year’s state elections.
- After the Wahlprüfungsausschuss rejected a full recount of the 2025 Bundestag election, the BSW says it will take its case to the Federal Constitutional Court.
- Tensions intensify between the federal leadership and eastern state branches, including counter-candidacies and a youth motion seeking tighter federal oversight of the BSW’s role in Thuringia and periodic membership votes on remaining in government.