Elif Eralp's Left Party on course for historic win in German capital
Elif Eralp must now win coalition backing after exit polls gave Die Linke about 25% and its best Berlin result ever, officials said.
- On Sunday, exit polls showed Die Linke winning about 25 percent of the vote in Berlin, positioning lead candidate Elif Eralp as the top contender to become the city's next mayor.
- The daughter of Turkish migrants, Eralp has campaigned on reducing inequality and solving Berlin's housing crisis, including a controversial pledge to expropriate flats held by large corporate landlords.
- Controversy from an August campaign event in Neukoelln persists, where a performer chanted "Death to the IDF!", prompting Eralp to distance herself amid criticism regarding the party's fitness to govern.
- Assembling a "red-red-green coalition" poses significant challenges, as SPD lead candidate Steffen Krach has publicly opposed Eralp's expropriation proposals, complicating coalition negotiations.
- Eralp has campaigned as the best person to counter the far-right AfD's rise, positioning her victory as significant for Germany's mainstream parties facing electoral pressure.
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Die Linke came to the top of the regional elections in the German capital on Sunday 20 September. The result of a renewal of its leaders and a campaign inspired by the methods of the American Senator Bernie Sanders.
The victory of the Left Party in the Berlin state elections on Sunday (20) was overshadowed by the continuing advance of the far right in eastern Germany, but it represented yet another defeat for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's ruling coalition. The main candidate, Elif Eralp, campaigned on the basis of the exorbitant cost of housing in the German capital and immediately promised to fulfil the promise of nationalizing private housing associations, …
Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing
By James Mackenzie BERLIN, Sept 20 (Reuters) - The far-left Left Party's victory in the Berlin state election on Sunday was overshadowed by the continuing advance of the far-right in eastern Germany but it marked another defeat for Chancellor Friedrich...
(Berlin=Yonhap News) Correspondent Kim Gye-yeon = Elif Eralf (45), the daughter of a Turkish immigrant, [voted] to the Left Party in the Berlin state parliamentary election on the 20th (local time)...
The big parties suffer a sharp fall, while the far right climbs to the third position in the capital
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