BSW presents short-dial program for the federal election

In terms of content, the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance wants to score points in the federal election with social demands – and a no to Ukraine’s EU membership. After the election there will also be a new name. It should stay with the abbreviation BSW.

The Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) has published an eight-page short catalog with demands for the early federal election. The paper calls for rents to be frozen in certain regions until 2030 and a minimum pension of 1,500 euros after 40 years of insurance. In addition, pensions should be tax-free up to an amount of 2,000 euros per month. The BSW also aims to abolish additional contributions in statutory health insurance.

The short program is available to the dpa news agency. The editorial network Germany (RND) first reported. A longer election program should therefore follow in January. According to the RND, the party wanted to take longer to develop a party program. However, the early federal election campaign put a stop to the plan.

No EU membership for Ukraine

In its eight-page paper on the Ukraine war, the BSW calls for “honest efforts to reach a ceasefire” and an end to German arms deliveries. There should be a stop to EU expansion, which must also apply to Ukraine.

In health policy, the BSW calls for the coexistence of statutory and private health insurance to be abolished and instead to introduce citizens’ insurance into which everyone pays.

Against the ban on combustion engines and the heating law

The demand for a stop to rent increases by 2030 refers to regions “in which the housing market has demonstrably outpaced incomes”.

The party also demands a legal minimum wage of 15 euros gross per hour. Their demands also include a withdrawal of the heating law and the ban on combustion engines in cars, a review of the Corona period by a Bundestag investigative committee and asylum procedures outside the EU in third countries that are considered safe.

New name, familiar abbreviation

The party also wants to change its name next year. BSW founder Sahra Wagenknecht told the Welt newspaper that the party named after her will be renamed after the federal election. Wagenknecht had already announced the step when the BSW was founded at the beginning of the year. “I won’t be doing politics for another 30 years, but the BSW should be a political factor in Germany for decades to come,” said the 55-year-old.

A new name should be found in an internal party process – but the abbreviation BSW will remain. “Our members and sympathizers have a lot of good ideas about how this can be done in a new way,” said Wagenknecht. Until the name is changed, other personalities from the party should be made better known.