Overview
- Sahra Wagenknecht will vacate the formal chair but keep seats on the board and presidium, maintaining decisive sway over strategy.
- She will lead a new values commission intended to sharpen the party’s profile and programmatic direction.
- Amira Mohamed Ali and European Parliament member Fabio De Masi are set to be listed at the top of the party organigram as the formal leaders.
- The party plans to remove Wagenknecht’s name from its official name, aligning branding with the leadership reorganization.
- BSW continues to seek a recount that it says could yield roughly 9,500 votes needed to change its Bundestag status, with Wagenknecht saying she would lead the parliamentary group if that outcome occurs.