Elif Eralp's Left Party on course for historic win in German capital
- Elif Eralp’s Left Party led Berlin’s election with about 25%, ahead of the CDU, which received about 20%.
- Eralp is positioned to become Berlin’s next mayor, but the SPD and Greens must agree to join her government.
- Eralp campaigned on addressing high rents, including by seeking to expropriate more than 200,000 homes owned by corporate landlords.
- The CDU also suffered a major defeat in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, where it fell below the 5% threshold.
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Tale of two elections: Fascism and socialism battle for Germany’s future
“It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” These opening lines to the classic novel A Tale of Two Cities seemingly also reflects the tale of two German elections, one in Berlin and the other in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, held on Sept.20. However, it is the Berlin story, a veritable political paradigm shift, […]
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It's not just the German press anymore, they're not political opponents, they're not polls anymore, after the CDU's series of electoral defeats, Chancellor Friedrich Merz's challenge has come within his own party.
Following the failure of the HDZ in the Mecklenburg-Forward Purification elections, the HDZ/CSS faction in Bundestag publicly supported Friedrich Merz and called for unity.
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