Overview
- BSW’s founder will leave the top post but keep seats on the board and presidium and chair a new values commission to shape the party’s line.
- Co-leader Amira Mohamed Ali stays in place as the party prepares a new dual leadership, and delegates are set to debate removing Wagenknecht’s name from the party title.
- BSW missed the Bundestag threshold in February by 0.019 percentage points, or 9,529 votes, and is pressing the Wahlprüfungsausschuss for a full recount.
- The party alleges structural counting errors, cites an estimate of roughly 30,000 to 32,973 additional votes for BSW, and signals readiness to pursue the case to the Constitutional Court if needed.
- A successful challenge could reallocate seats and upset current Bundestag majorities, while Wagenknecht has also sharpened her profile by attacking President Steinmeier’s ‘Brandmauer’ stance and rejecting anti-AfD barrier coalitions.