Elif Eralp's Left Party on course for historic win in German capital
- Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to stay in office on Sunday despite stinging election defeats in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, confronting recent speculation about his potential resignation.
- Merz has faced 16 months of record-low personal approval ratings hovering just above 10 percent while the AfD now leads nationwide polls, complicating his efforts to lure voters from the far-right party.
- The AfD reached about 37 percent in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, while in Berlin the far-left Die Linke defeated the CDU with about 25 percent to 19 percent, an outcome Merz admitted was a "disaster."
- Eight state premiers declared Wednesday that Germany needs "stability now more than ever" rather than "discussions about personnel," though they refrained from issuing a personal endorsement of the chancellor.
- Acknowledging that "trust in our country's institutions is waning," Merz delivered a TV address that ING economist Carsten Brzeski characterized as an attempt to choke off resignation speculation building in recent weeks.
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The Die Linke party has achieved the best result in its history and most likely Elif Eralp will become the next mayor
Left Party wins Berlin election as AfD gains ground
Germany's Left Party, led by Elif Eralp, won Berlin's state election on Sunday with 25.3% of the vote, ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), according to preliminary results.The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD)
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In Berlin’s state elections, Germany’s most leftwing party Die Linke has won a significant victory – the biggest in its recent history. It could also mean that the city gets its first mayor from the party since the fall of the Berlin wall. That’s partly due to the apparently infinite influence of New York City […]
Eralp, who is the daughter of Turkish leftists who fled their country after the 1980 coup, reminds many of New York Mayor Zohrab Mamdani.
In Saturday's elections to the Berlin state parliament, the far-left party Die Linke emerged as the strongest party, according to preliminary results from the state election leader and high estimates from ARD and ZDF. It was led by Elif Eralp, a lawyer of Turkish origin. The mayor's post is not yet guaranteed, as he will be elected by parliament, but there is a high probability of a far-left coalition […] The post Berlin has fallen! How foreigne…
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