{"id":439781,"date":"2025-11-11T10:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/11\/11\/sahra-wagenknecht-dopo-il-flop-elettorale-lascia-le-guida-del-bsw\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T11:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T10:30:18","slug":"sahra-wagenknecht-steps-down-as-bsw-leader-after-election-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/11\/11\/sahra-wagenknecht-steps-down-as-bsw-leader-after-election-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahra Wagenknecht steps down as BSW leader after election setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Brussels &#8211;\u00a0After the failure in the last general elections and numerous internal disagreements within the movement, <strong>Sahra Wagenknecht <\/strong>is stepping down as leader of the red-brown BSW party she founded in Germany. She made the announcement yesterday (November 10) at a press conference in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Current co-chair Amira Mohamed Ali and MEP Fabio De Masi will now lead the party, which will partially change its name: it will continue to use the acronym BSW, which will no longer refer to the founder&#8217;s name but to the &#8220;Alliance for Social Justice and Economic Reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the last German elections, the BSW <strong>failed to pass the 5 percent threshold by only 9,000 votes<\/strong> and was therefore excluded from the\u00a0distribution of seats in the Bundestag (a recount request is pending in the courts). The party was founded in January 2024 following a split from the Linke, which Wagenknecht\u2019s partner, Oskar Lafontaine, former SPD chairman, had helped to found in 2007 but later distanced himself from.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211;\u00a0After the failure in the last general elections and numerous internal disagreements within the movement, Sahra Wagenknecht is stepping down as leader of the red-brown BSW party she founded in Germany. She made the announcement yesterday (November 10) at a press conference in Berlin. 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