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Namesake and central figure Sahra Wagenknecht in 2023. Wagenknecht, who has been described as a prominent left-wing politician, [17] was a member of The Left and its predecessors, such as the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS); her political positions are generally identified as left-wing populist.
The BSW group is a group in the 20th German Bundestag. BSW stands for Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, Sahra Wagenknecht being the party founder and leader. All ten members of the group were previously in the Die Linke fraktion, which was dissolved in December 2023. The BSW group was recognized as a group on 2 February 2024. [1]
Alexander King, a member of the Berlin House of Representatives for The Left, joined BSW on 27 October 2023, the first member of a state legislature to do so. Metin Kaya, a member of the Hamburg Parliament followed suit.
Sahra Wagenknecht (born Sarah Wagenknecht; German: [ˌzaːʁa ˈvaːɡŋ̍ˌknɛçt]; 16 July 1969) is a German politician, economist, author, and publicist. [1] She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009, where she represented The Left until 2023. From 2015 to 2019, she served as that party's parliamentary co-chair.
The BSW was officially founded as a party on 8 January 2024. [11] [12] After the decision to dissolve the LINKE faction, the 28 remaining members of their party applied for and received group status on 2 February 2024. The ten members from the BSW, who had previously left LINKE, were also recognized as a group on the same day. [13]
After the elections in both Thuringia and Saxony, Sahra Wagenknecht, leader of the BSW, stated her preferences to go into a coalition with either the CDU and/or the SPD in an interview with ARD. [6] Though a right-wing CDU-AfD coalition would have a majority, the national CDU has prohibited any state faction from working with that party.
She is the lead candidate for Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht in the 2024 Thuringian state election. She was elected, and the party got 15 seats and third place after the AfD and CDU. Wolf negotiated for the BSW Thuringia with the CDU and SPD about a coalition in Thuringia. At the end of October 2024, the three parties presented a paper that ...
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