New Party - BSW founded Berlin State Association
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) now has a Berlin branch. At a founding assembly in Adlershof, Alexander King, former Left parliamentarian, and Josephine Thyrêt, a nurse, were elected as co-chairs. No other candidates were running.
Sahra Wagenknecht, Bundestag member and former Left politician, founded her party in January. BSW state associations have been forming one after another. The Berlin state association is reportedly the fifth in this series. It currently has approximately 80 members, many of whom attended the founding assembly.
Diploma-Geographer King is 54 years old and has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since December 2021, with a brief interruption. In November 2023, he left the Left parliamentary group to join the BSW. Thyrêt is 49 years old and has been the works council chair at the state-owned Vivantes clinic conglomerate for almost four years. She has been serving as the deputy supervisory board chair there for over a year.
- Sahra Wagenknecht's new party, the BSW, has established a State Association in Germany's capital, Berlin.
- Alexander King, a former Left parliamentarian and currently a member of the Berlin House of Representatives, was elected as co-chair of the Berlin BSW branch during the founding assembly in Adlershof.
- Josephine Thyrêt, a nurse and the works council chair at the state-owned Vivantes clinic conglomerate, was also elected as co-chair of the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht's Berlin branch, alongside King.
- The Berlin State Association of the BSW, under the leadership of King and Thyrêt, is located in Adlershof, a district known for its technological and scientific research institutions.
- In November 2023, Double Peak was marked in German politics as Josephine Thyrêt, a member of Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht, left the Left parliamentary group to join the BSW, further strengthening the party at the national level.
