Overview
- BSW says it intends to strike Sahra Wagenknecht’s name from the party title in December.
- Wagenknecht states she will continue working for the party, calling BSW her “heart project.”
- She describes the founder-branded name as a transitional device that helped establish the party.
- In Saxony, state chair Sabine Zimmermann is foregoing another run for the post.
- The party is represented in the governments of Thuringia and Brandenburg after narrowly missing Bundestag entry in February.