Overview
- Delegates in Magdeburg elected EU MEP Fabio de Masi (93.3%) to succeed Sahra Wagenknecht, with Amira Mohamed Ali reconfirmed (82.6%) as co‑leader.
- The party approved a rebrand to “Bündnis Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftliche Vernunft,” to take effect on 1 October 2026, while retaining the BSW acronym.
- Wagenknecht will chair a new Grundwertekommission shaping the party’s ideology and remains a presence in the leadership, as ex‑Union Berlin executive Oliver Ruhnert was named to become general secretary.
- Delegates adopted a core platform by a wide margin, calling for an end to military aid to Ukraine, rejection of conscription, renewed imports of Russian pipeline gas, scrapping the CO2 price and combustion‑engine ban, and a nationwide rent cap.
- After the Bundestag’s election review committee rejected a full recount of the February vote, the party said it will appeal to the Constitutional Court, with a plenary decision due on 18 December.