Sahra Wagenknecht, chairwoman of the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), is escorted off the stage by a bodyguard after being spraying with a red liquid during a campaign event on Domplatz, Erfurt ...

The leader of Germany's Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) was attacked with pink paint on Thursday at a campaign rally in the eastern German state of Thuringia, where her party is expected to come ...

Sahra Wagenknecht, party chairwoman, speaks at the founding conference of the new Wagenknecht party, the "Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance - for Reason and Justice". The party was officially founded at ...

Sahra Wagenknecht, a former Communist, has founded her own party to respond to German grievances about migrants, crime and the dangers of the war in Ukraine. Skip to content Skip to site index.

Opinions about leftist leader Sahra Wagenknecht vary widely, but her new namesake party’s success in eastern Germany could change the political landscape of the entire country.

Sahra Wagenknecht, leader of Germany's Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance party (BSW), attends a press conference after the German general election in Berlin, Germany February 24, 2025.

On Monday morning, Sahra Wagenknecht, the most charismatic politician in Germany’s Left party, led an uprising against it. A longtime member of the national Parliament and until 2019 a co-leader ...

The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) managed to rank third in both states by getting 15.8% and 11.8% of the vote in Thuringia and Saxony respectively.