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October 1 2025 A book by a French-Syrian journalist claimed Islamists had 'infiltrated' the party, with La France Insoumise threatening legal action in response.
2025 Maduro chanted 'Attention, attention, Maduro is also a soldier of Perón'.
September 2025 The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) achieved a significant electoral success by winning 40 seats in the local elections of North Rhine-Westphalia, marking an important milestone for the newly formed political party.
2025 The party shows particularly strong performance in North Rhine-Westphalia with 11.8% support, contrasting with lower or unavailable results in other German states.
August 2025 During the congress in Châteauneuf-sur-Isère, near Valence in the Drôme, France Insoumise called for a strike on September 10, 2025, to oppose the 2026 budget bill presented by François Bayrou.
2025 The Federal Agency for Civic Education reiterated its classification of BSW as 'left-wing in terms of economic policy' while noting the party's conservative positions on social policy.
2025 Citizen Revolution Movement further increases its National Assembly vote share to 41.32%, solidifying its political position.
2025 Luisa González loses the presidential election to Daniel Noboa again, winning 44% of the vote, and refuses to concede, alleging unsubstantiated claims of electoral fraud.
2025 Party presidential candidate receives 44.40% of votes in the election.
2025 Sahra Wagenknecht criticizes the BSW's participation in the Thuringia government following a poor performance in the German Federal election, specifically accusing state organization leader Katja Wolf of being partly responsible for the party's electoral failure.
2025 The party secured 4.98% in the national German election and 1.8% in the European Union election, establishing its presence in the political landscape.
May 16 2025 After Skirgiełło's unsuccessful presidential run, Samoobrona endorsed an independent candidate supported by Law and Justice, Karol Nawrocki, while Skirgiełło herself endorsed Grzegorz Braun.
2025 The party experienced a decline in seat and vote share due to increased support for the Liberal Party under Mark Carney, but continued to share the balance of power in a Liberal minority government.
2025 The Bloc Québécois wins 10 seats, maintains second place in Quebec, and continues as a third party nationally with 27.7% of Quebec votes.
2025 In the 2025 Canadian federal election, the Bloc Québécois led by Blanchet won 22 seats, a significant decrease from the prior election.
April 2025 A month-long internal power struggle within the Thuringian BSW concludes with Katja Wolf retaining her position as state organization leader. Wolf successfully defeated Anke Wirsing, who was backed by party founder Sahra Wagenknecht, in a contested candidacy.
April 4 2025 Aldona Anna Skirgiełło failed to gather the required 100,000 signatures to appear on the presidential ballot, falling short with around 93,000 signatures.
March 13 2025 Federal Constitutional Court ruled against BSW's recount appeal, stating election review is a matter for the Bundestag.
March 11 2025 BSW appealed to the Federal Constitutional Court for a nationwide election recount, citing vote irregularities and potential missed threshold crossing.
2025 BSW participated in the Hamburg state election, receiving 1.8% of votes, becoming the eighth-ranked party and maintaining an extra-parliamentary status.
2025 Party aims to have no more than 2,000 members by the German federal election.
February 24 2025 At the federal press conference, Wagenknecht blamed media and polling institute Forsa for the party's election failure, claiming a 'negative media campaign' and 'targeted manipulation'.
February 23 2025 The federal election was held, with BSW receiving 4.9% of the vote, falling just short of the 5% threshold needed for Bundestag seats.
2025 The BSW anticipates potential political consequences in the federal election, criticizing the constitutional court protection amendment as 'undemocratic'.
February 2025 Friedrich Pürner resigned from the party.
February 15 2025 Sahra Wagenknecht filed a constitutional complaint after the public broadcaster ARD excluded BSW from the TV debate 'Election Campaign Arena', challenging the party's media representation.
February 5 2025 BSW polled as high as 7.9% in voter support just weeks before the federal election.
January 25 2025 Samoobrona held a party congress and announced Aldona Anna Skirgiełło as their candidate for the 2025 Polish presidential election, marking the first time since 2010 the party fielded its own candidate.
2024 The party gained three seats in the legislative election.
2024 The Federal Agency for Civic Education described the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) as 'left-conservative', emphasizing left-wing economic and social policies focused on redistribution, higher corporate taxes, and conservative cultural policies limiting immigration and questioning climate protection measures.
2024 Party participated with minimal electoral impact, receiving 260 votes (0.00% of the total) and no seats, with a party member running on the Repair Poland Movement's lists.
2024 Party shows a slight recovery, obtaining 0.9% of votes and ranking 8th in elections.
2024 In its program, Samoobrona praised Palestine and Kurdistan, calling them 'great nations' constantly fighting for land and international recognition.
2024
Chavismo
A Committee to Protect Journalists report described Venezuela as a 'news desert', noting the regime had closed 200 radio stations over the past two years.
2024 La France Insoumise won 71 seats in the legislative elections, contributing the largest proportion of seats to the New Popular Front's total of 192 seats.
2024 La France Insoumise improved its performance in the European Parliament elections, increasing its vote share to 9.87% and gaining additional seats, ranking 4th in the election.
2024 Under Manuel Bompard's leadership, La France Insoumise achieves 28.21% of votes in legislative elections, winning 5 seats while remaining in opposition and participating in the NFP coalition.
2024 During the summer months, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) polled at over 10% of the vote, showing significant early political momentum.
2024 Michelle O'Neill became the first Irish nationalist First Minister of Northern Ireland, representing a historic moment for the party.
2024 Sinn Féin allowed the UK's ban on puberty blockers to be extended to Northern Ireland, effectively closing access to gender-affirming healthcare for transgender individuals.
2024 In the Republic of Ireland local elections, Sinn Féin secured 11.8% of the vote.
2024 In the United Kingdom general election, Sinn Féin became the single largest party representing Northern Ireland in Westminster.
2024 Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance participated in the European Parliament election with Fabio de Masi as the list leader, securing 2,453,652 votes (6.17% of the total), which resulted in a new representation in the Non-Inscrits (NI) group.
2024 Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance achieved notable election results in multiple German states, including 13.5% in Berlin, 11.8% in Saxony-Anhalt, and 15.8% in Thuringia during state elections.
2024 Sahra Wagenknecht offered a potential coalition government to the CDU for the state elections in Saxony, Thuringia, and Brandenburg, contingent on no majority being possible without the AfD.
2024 Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) was announced, causing concern among the Brandenburg branch of Alternative for Germany (AfD) about potential vote loss in the upcoming September 2024 Brandenburg state election.
December 2024 Wagenknecht declared that she condemns the war in Ukraine and considers politicians who start wars, including Vladimir Putin, to be criminals.
December 2024 The Bundestag voted to incorporate the Federal Constitutional Court's structure (16 judges and two senates) into the basic law, with all parties except the AfD and BSW supporting the measure.

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