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The left will in future be led by a pair of female leaders: Janine Wissler and Susanne Hennig-Wellsow were elected as new chairmen at a digital party conference on Saturday.
You will succeed Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger.
The result of the vote still has to be confirmed by a postal vote.
According to this, Janine Wissler could look forward to an approval rate of 84.2 percent, Susanne Hennig-Wellsow got 70.5 percent.
Wisseler was previously the head of the Hessian parliamentary group, Hennig-Wellsow was the Thuringian state chief.
The so-called mixed electoral list also included two male opposing candidates who received 104 and 15 votes.
39 delegates abstained.
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Hennig-Wellsow campaigned at the party congress for a commitment by the left to take on government responsibility also in the federal government: “Let's not wait any longer!
People don't have time to wait for us. ”You are promoting the drive to drive the CDU and CSU out of the federal government.
"Whether it's black-green or red-red-green is also up to us."
Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger had previously led the party since 2012.
They actually wanted to end their term in office last June, but the party congress has been postponed twice since then due to Corona.
At the online meeting this Saturday, there will also be a vote on the replacement of the deputy posts, the federal manager and the federal treasurer.