Overview
- Sahra Wagenknecht will not seek re‑election at the December congress but will stay on the party board and presidium and lead a new Grundwertekommission, saying she would chair a Bundestag caucus if BSW enters Parliament via a recount.
- BSW cites its 4.981 percent result in February, missing the threshold by 9,529 votes, and has asked the Bundestag’s Wahlprüfungsausschuss for a full recount, estimating roughly 30,000 additional votes could be found.
- Fabio De Masi is positioned as the leading successor alongside current co-chair Amira Mohamed Ali, with the leadership to be confirmed at the Magdeburg congress in December.
- Party leaders are advancing a rebrand that would drop Wagenknecht’s name, proposing the title Bündnis Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftliche Vernunft for a delegate vote on December 6–7.
- In Brandenburg, the SPD says it will keep the coalition with BSW despite the BSW faction’s planned no on two media‑state treaties, as CDU support is expected to secure passage and four BSW deputies have filed no‑confidence motions against their faction leadership.