Overview
- Delegates elected Fabio De Masi with 93.3 percent and Amira Mohamed Ali with 82.6 percent to lead the party, and chose former Union Berlin executive Oliver Ruhnert as general secretary.
- Sahra Wagenknecht gave up the chair to head a newly created Grundwertekommission that will shape the party’s core program, maintaining significant influence.
- The congress voted to replace the founder’s name with “Bündnis Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftliche Vernunft” after the 2026 regional elections, retaining the BSW acronym.
- Tensions over participation in state governments flared, with boos for officials from Thuringia and Brandenburg and the sole Thuringia candidate for a vice post failing with 12.9 percent.
- Leaders reaffirmed a peace‑first course and said they will take a recount dispute to the Federal Constitutional Court, as De Masi floated tying resumed Russian gas purchases to a Ukraine ceasefire.