Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance

The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice (; BSW) is a political party in Germany founded on 8 January 2024. It has been described as a left-wing to far-left party with populist and nationalist tendencies.  The BSW is sceptical of green politics, criticises support for Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War by the West, criticises support for Israel in the war in Gaza and holds Eurosceptic and anti-American views on foreign policy. The party is regarded as "left-conservative" or "left-authoritarian", because it blends economically socialist ideals with cultural conservatism and social conservatism on social issues.

The party originated as a split from the party The Left (Die Linke). In September 2023, Sahra Wagenknecht, Amira Mohamed Ali, Christian Leye, Lukas Schön, and several other long time Left party members announced their intention to form a new party. It was subsequently joined by others including former Left party leader Klaus Ernst, Fabio De Masi, and former mayor of Düsseldorf Thomas Geisel. The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance was officially founded in January 2024 with Wagenknecht and Mohamed Ali as its leaders. In February, they formed a group in the Bundestag.

The BSW contested its first elections in May. In June, the party won 6.1% of votes nationally in the European Parliament elections. In September, it won between 11% and 16% in three eastern state elections in Saxony, Thuringia, and Brandenburg. As of 2025, the BSW is part of governing coalitions in two states: Thuringia (Blackberry coalition) and in Brandenburg (Red–purple coalition). In the 2025 German federal election, the party received 4.981% of second votes, narrowly missing the 5% threshold required to be allocated seats in the Bundestag. Wagenknecht announced in November 2025 that she will resign as leader, designating MEP Fabio De Masi as her successor.
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