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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. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger ...
ERFURT, Aug 29 (Reuters) - 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 ...
From a stage in Brandenburg an der Havel, an hour outside Berlin, Sahra Wagenknecht pauses for a moment, 20 minutes into her speech. The former communist and rising political leader looks out at a ...
Vor der Bundestagswahl knüpft Sahra Wagenknecht ihr politisches Schicksal an den Einzug des BSW in den Bundestag. Diesen verpasst ihre Partei. Weitermachen will Wagenknecht trotzdem. Sahra ...
Once the face of the socialist Left Party, 55-year-old Sahra Wagenknecht is well-known in Germany. She abandoned the party last year to found a new one that bears her own name: the Sahra ...
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. The success of the eponymous party's leader ...
BERLIN, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Germany's political newcomer, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), said on Monday it might legally challenge the results of the national election after narrowly missing ...
BERLIN — The German left-populist Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) is considering legal action after narrowly failing to enter Germany’s parliament in Sunday’s national election. Party leaders Sahra ...
Born in communist East Germany, to a German mother and Iranian father, Sahra Wagenknecht has long been the face of the country’s hard left. But her own breakaway political movement, supporting a ...