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BSW
The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is a German party founded on 8 January 2024 by Sahra Wagenknecht and others who left The Left.
- Website
- bsw-vg.de
Left · Where sources place the party
Wikipedia: left-wing populist; economically left, culturally conservative
Ideology: left-wing populism, Euroscepticism, social conservatism
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Co-chaired by Amira Mohamed Ali and Fabio De Masi, it won 5 seats in the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag on 6 September 2026. It is named in the 2026 question on the next Sachsen-Anhalt state government.
History
The BSW was founded in January 2024 by Sahra Wagenknecht and others from The Left. It won 6.1 percent and 6 seats in the 2024 European election and 11 to 16 percent in the 2024 eastern state elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. It joined coalitions in Brandenburg and Thuringia from December 2024, both marked by turmoil and defections in 2025 and 2026. In the 2025 federal election it missed the threshold with 4.981 percent. Wagenknecht stepped down as chair in November 2025, and in Saxony-Anhalt in 2026 the party won 5.3 percent and 5 seats.
Positions
Wikipedia describes the party as combining economically socialist positions with cultural conservatism, and characterises it as left-wing populist and Eurosceptic. It criticises support for Ukraine and Israel and current EU structures.
Summarised automatically from the linked sources. Wikipedia · Wikipedia
Which parties will be in the Sachsen-Anhalt state government?
| Outcome | Left – Right | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| AfD | 73% | |
| BSW | Left | 12% |
| Linke | Left | 10% |
| SPD | 9% | |
| CDU | 8% | |
| Grüne | Centre-left | 5% |
| FDP | 4% |