BSW group (Bundestag)

The group currently has ten members, including the former parliamentary group leader of the Left Party in the Bundestag Amira Mohamed Ali, the former party leader of the Left Party Klaus Ernst and the former deputy party leader and penultimate parliamentary group leader of the Left Party Sahra Wagenknecht:^[3]

With regard to parliamentary work, the BSW group was responsible for no legislative initiatives, no major interpellations, 32 minor interpellations, ten independent motions and three motions for resolutions in the 20th legislative term (as of July 2024).

After a long dispute over direction within the Left Party, Sahra Wagenknecht, together with nine other members of the Bundestag, left the Left Party on October 23, 2023, but remained in the Left faction for the time being. On November 14, 2023, the dissolution of the Left parliamentary group in the Bundestag was decided for December 6, 2023. On December 6, 2023, the parliamentary group was dissolved. On February 2, 2024, the BSW and Left groups were recognized.

The BSW members stayed away from the speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the German Bundestag in June 2024. In a statement by the BSW group, the reason given was that President is currently helping to "promote a highly dangerous spiral of escalation" and is "accepting the risk of a nuclear conflict with devastating consequences for the whole of Europe." Everything must be done to ensure that the conflict does not escalate "into a major European war" and that Germany does not become a party to the war. Zelensky "should not be honoured with a special event in the German Bundestag".^[4] Chancellor Olaf Scholz and opposition leader Friedrich Merz sharply criticized the BSW for its absence and viewed it as a lack of respect. Politicians from the Left also criticized the BSW for this.