Overview
- Delegates elected Fabio De Masi as co-leader with 93.3 percent and reaffirmed Amira Mohamed Ali with 82.6 percent, while Sahra Wagenknecht will lead a newly created Grundwertekommission.
- The congress approved a delayed rebrand to “Bündnis Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftliche Vernunft,” set to take effect in October 2026.
- Leaders emphasized a peace-first course, rejecting conscription and further arms deliveries to Ukraine and urging renewed engagement with Russia.
- Senior BSW figures called the AfD “firewall” a failed strategy, and De Masi said the party will join neither an anti-AfD alliance nor any coalition with the AfD.
- Rifts with eastern state branches persisted as Thüringen and Brandenburg pragmatists faced public rebukes and failed to win vice-chair posts, even as Thüringen’s Katja Wolf appealed for better cooperation.