Overview

• Bärbel Bas secured a second term as co-chair with 95 percent support, while Lars Klingbeil was re-elected with only 64.9 percent backing, highlighting internal divisions.
• Delegates rejected a motion opposing NATO’s 5 percent of GDP defense-spending target by a 65 percent majority, endorsing the alliance’s commitment.
• The congress adopted a compromise on conscription, ruling out compulsory service until all voluntary recruitment measures are exhausted but permitting registration, medical exams and monitoring.
• SPD members voted unanimously to prepare a constitutional court application to ban the far-right AfD as a threat to Germany’s democratic order.
• Party leaders launched the development of a new Grundsatzprogramm to guide ideological renewal and clarify the SPD’s future policy direction.