Oskar Lafontaine is a German politician. He served as Minister-President of the state of Saarland from 1985 to 1998 and was federal leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1995 to 1999. He was the lead candidate for the SPD in the 1990 German federal election, but lost by a wide margin. He served as Minister of Finance under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder after the SPD's victory in the 1998 federal election, but resigned from both the ministry and Bundestag less than six months later, positioning himself as a popular opponent of Schröder's policies in the tabloid press.
Sahra Wagenknecht is a German politician, economist, author, and publicist. Since 2009 she has been a member of the Bundestag, where until 2023 she represented The Left. From 2015 to 2019, she served as that party's parliamentary co-chair. With a small team of allies, she left the party on 23 October 2023 to found her own party in 2024, Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, to contest elections onwards.
Fabio Valeriano Lanfranco De Masi is a German-Italian politician. He was a member of the German Bundestag from 2017 to 2021 and was a member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany from 1 July 2014 to 23 October 2017. Until September 2022 he was a member of The Left Party, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left.
The 2022 Saarland state election was held on 27 March 2022 to elect the 17th Landtag of Saarland. The outgoing government was a coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Minister-President Tobias Hans.
Katja Wolf is a German politician. She was member of Landtag of Thuringia from 1999 to 2012 for The Left. Between 2012 and 2024, she served as the mayor of Eisenach in Thuringia. She switched in 2024 to the newly founded BSW, is state chairmen of BSW Thuringia, got elected in the 2024 Thuringian state election and will be the parliamentary group leader in the Thuringian state parliament.
Amira Mohamed Ali is a German politician and member of the Bundestag since 2017. From 12 November 2019 till October 2023, she was the parliamentary co-chairperson of The Left alongside Dietmar Bartsch. In October 2023, she left The Left alongside others like Sahra Wagenknecht to found a new party. Mohamed Ali is the chairwoman of the board of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht-Association which was founded to prepare a new party in January 2024.
The 2024 Thuringian state election was held on 1 September 2024 to elect the members of the 8th Landtag of Thuringia. It was held on the same day as the 2024 Saxony state election.
Jessica Tatti is a German politician. Born in Marbach am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, she represents Wagenknecht-party and serves as its Group Chief Whip in the German Bundestag. She switched party from The Left in October 2023 to "Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht".
Sabine Zimmermann is a German politician. Born in Pasewalk, Bezirk Neubrandenburg, she is a member of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht. She served as a member of the Bundestag from the state of Saxony between 2005 and 2021, for The Left.
In the run-up to the 2025 German federal election, various organisations are carrying out opinion polling to gauge voting intentions in Germany. Results of such polls are displayed in this list.
Christian Leye is a German politician. He is a Member of the German Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia.
Maximilian Becker is a German economist and politician who is a member of Die Linke.
Barbara Spaniol is a German politician of The Left who was a member of the Landtag of Saarland from 2004 to 2022. Starting her career in The Greens, she joined The Left in 2007. From 2013 to 2021 she was one of the vice presidents of the Landtag. She served as The Left's lead candidate during the 2022 Saarland state election.
The 2024 Saxony state election was held on 1 September 2024 to elect members to the 8th Landtag of Saxony. It was held on the same day as the 2024 Thuringian state election. Going into the election, the state government was led by Michael Kretschmer of the CDU as Minister-President, in a coalition with the Greens and the SPD.
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice is a political party in Germany founded on 8 January 2024. It has been described as left-wing populist, left-wing nationalist, socialist, culturally conservative, socially conservative and Eurosceptic. The party is sceptical of green politics and support for Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian War, and has been described as Russophilic.
Ruth Christina Margarete Firmenich is a German politician from Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht. In the 2024 European Parliament election she was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Alexander King is a German politician from Berlin. King is a member of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht, previously representing Die Linke and PDS. With a short interruption, he has been a member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin since 2021. He has been the state chairman of the BSW Berlin since 2024.
The BSW group is a group in the 20th German Bundestag whose members belong to the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht party. All ten members of the group were previously in the Die Linke fraktion, which was dissolved in December 2023. The BSW group was recognized as a group on 2 February 2024.
