Party of the Besmenian Left

Party of the Besmenian Left Partei der Besmenischen Linke
Chairperson	Petra Wachsmuth
Secretary-General	Georg Winkler
Founded	August 15, 1998 (1998-08-15)
Headquarters	Eisenstraße 73, Laitstadt, Besmenia
Ideology	Democratic socialism Left-wing populism Pacifism
Colors	Red
Federal Chamber	45 / 442
Federal Senate	1 / 64
Seats in states parliaments	109 / 1,488

The Party of the Besmenian Left (Besmenian: Partei der Besmenischen Linken) is a democratic-socialism and left-wing party in Besmenia.

The PBL was formed in January 1998 initially primarily from critical SDU members and opponents of the more conservative-leaning SDU chairman Rudolf Dietrich who had formed the association Wahlalternative der Besmenischen Linken e. V. and constituted itself as a political party on August 15, 1998. While the PBL was described as a protest party with the aim of making an alternative to the SDU in its early years, a regular electorate increasingly formed from the 2000s onwards.

The PBL has had uninterrupted representation in the Federal Chamber since 2001 and has been involved as a junior partner in the Trissian state government alongside the SDU and GPB since 2013.

Election results

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Federal Chamber

Election	Prime Minister Candidate	Votes in %	Seats	Government
2001	Hannes Hochstein	5,3% (#6)	24 / 427	Opposition
2005	Erik Schwan	5,8% (#6)	26 / 427	Opposition
2009	Erik Schwan	8,9% (#5)	39 / 427	Opposition
2012	Sandra Eckwach	7,3% (#6)	37 / 427	Opposition
2016	Sandra Eckwach	8% (#5)	36 / 427	Opposition
2020	Sandra Eckwach	9% (#5)	45 / 427	Opposition
2021	Sandra Eckwach	10,1% (#5)	45 / 427	Opposition

President

Election	Candidate	First round result		Second round result
		Votes in %	Result	Votes in %	Result
2003	No candidate
2009	No candidate
2009	No candidate
2021	Wilfried Wetzstein	4,2%	5th place

Chairpersons of the PBL

Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office		Tenure (Years and days)	State	Prime Minister
1		Hannes Hochstein (1953–2014)	15 August 1998	21 September 2001	3 years, 37 days	Summingia	Erik Tautenbach
2	File:Erik Schwan.jpg	Erik Schwan (1959–)	21 September 2001	7 December 2009	8 years, 77 days	Maurenmark	Erik Tautenbach Ursula Kummstein
3	File:Anton Pohl.jpg	Anton Pohl (1964-)	7 December 2009	6 October 2011	1 year, 303 days	Metakumburg	Ursula Kummstein Jörg Rautenberg
4		Sandra Eckwach (1966–)	6 October 2011	15 May 2022	10 years, 221 days	Laitstadt	Jörg Rautenberg Theodor Sidemann Richard Benkel Elisabeth Rademacher
5		Petra Wachsmuth (1982–)	15 May 2022	Incumbent	2 years, 193 days	Frankenburg	Elisabeth Rademacher