Overview
- The presidium and federal board propose renaming the party to “Bündnis Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftliche Vernunft” while keeping the BSW abbreviation.
- Sahra Wagenknecht says she will stay in a leading role, as the party readies a new leadership slate for Monday and Christian Leye shifts from general secretary to seek a deputy chair post.
- The name change will be put to a vote at the December congress and requires a two‑thirds majority for approval.
- In Brandenburg, the BSW group plans to vote largely against two media‑state treaties, threatening the coalition’s own majority as the CDU signals it could supply the votes to pass them.
- Wagenknecht has urged the Bundestag’s election review committee to allow a recount of the February vote the party narrowly lost, with no next committee date confirmed.