BSW opens doors: Berlin can look forward to 100 new members!

BSW opens doors: Berlin can look forward to 100 new members!

Berlin, Deutschland - On June 5, 2025, there are remarkable developments in the German party landscape. The alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) has decided to open membership for interested parties, which is an important turning point for the still young party. So far, joining to the BSW has been associated with numerous hurdles, which the party harmed in the run -up to the Bundestag election. According to the Berliner Zeitung, the goal is to target new members to strengthen the party's presence in all Berlin districts.

The BSW, which was founded on January 8, 2024, emerged from a split from the DIE LINKE party. Their political orientation is typed as left to extremely left, with populist and nationalist tendencies. Among other things, the party criticizes green politics and the support for Ukraine in the ongoing conflict and positions itself in the Eurosceptic and anti-American in foreign policy.

member numbers and growth goals

currently the Berlin BSW has a member number of around 250 and is aiming to increase this recruitment by 100 new members by targeted recruitment. With this, the party wants to react to its past, in which it has closed the doors for potential sympathizers through an non -transparent accession procedure, as the Berliner Zeitung reports.

The BSW has asserted itself on several political stages in the last elections. In the European elections in June 2024, she reached 6.1% of the votes and was able to achieve significant results in the subsequent state elections that were between 11% and 16%. Despite these successes, the BSW failed at the 5% hurdle in the 2025 federal election and received 4.981% of the votes.

political challenges and internal conflicts

In the past few months, however, BSW was exposed to internal power struggles, especially between the leading personalities Sahra Wagenknecht and Katja Wolf. These conflicts could endanger the party's efforts to continue to grow and become a stable player in German politics. In addition, their membership structure, consisting of 500 full members and 17,000 registered supporters, is a sign that the party operates in a dynamic environment.

In view of the still falling membership figures of the established parties in Germany, as the Federal Center for Political Education states, the BSW shows a growing relevance with a possible increase in its membership numbers and could thus set a new trend in German politics.

The BSW initiatives for recruiting members are in a strong contrast to the general trends in Germany, where the number of members of many large parties have been declining since the 1990s. This underlines the importance of the strategic realignment of the BSW and the opportunity to benefit from dissatisfaction in the electorate.

While the political landscape in Germany is changing, it remains to be seen whether the BSW will be successful with its new strategy and whether it can actually offer a sustainable alternative to the more traditional political forces.

For further information that examines the development of the BSW in more detail, see the reporting on the Berliner Zeitung href = "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/sahra_wagenknecht_alliance"> wikipedia and the membership development on the Federal Center for Political Education .