Overview
- Party leaders propose the name “Bündnis Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftliche Vernunft” while confirming the BSW initials will remain.
- Rhineland-Palatinate leaders Alexander Ulrich and Sina Listmann back an alternative, “Bürger schaffen Wandel – Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit,” which they say draws on an idea from Saxony’s Ronny Kupke.
- The final decision is slated for a national party congress in Magdeburg in early December, with the state board in Rhineland-Palatinate urging a vote on both options.
- Sahra Wagenknecht says she sees no dispute over the renaming and expects a wise outcome from the congress, and she plans to announce on Monday whether she will seek the federal chair again.
- BSW Sachsen-Anhalt has called a 29 November special congress in Burg to set the campaign course and address differences, with Stern reporting an escalated power struggle and the party describing the meeting as a unifying step.