Overview
- Wagenknecht missed the two-day strategy meeting in Berlin due to illness, leaving her intentions for the party chair unresolved.
- Co-chair Amira Mohamed Ali said the board plans to present a full leadership slate this week and to propose a new party name that keeps the BSW initials.
- A draft platform focuses on defense policy, urging an end to arms deliveries to Ukraine, rejecting further military spending hikes, and favoring renewed pipeline energy imports from Russia.
- Wagenknecht and Mohamed Ali wrote to Bundestag President Julia Klöckner demanding a rapid decision on their recount appeal and warning of a return to the Constitutional Court if delays continue.
- A successful recount could grant BSW more than 30 mandates and strip the Union–SPD coalition of its parliamentary majority, altering Bundestag dynamics.