Berlin-Wahl: „Geschichte geschrieben“ – Wird die Linke nun Berlin regieren?
Die Linke feiert ein historisches Ergebnis. Offen bleibt, ob mögliche Koalitionspartner die Enteignung von Immobilien mittragen – und ob die Parteibasis überhaupt regieren will.
Berlin erupted with glass-shattering cheers and jubilant shouts as the leftist party celebrated their historic electoral victory. The party secured a narrow win with just over 25% of the vote, edging ahead of the governing CDU by five percent and surpassing the Greens by more than ten percent. This marked the party's best performance in a Berlin-wide election, with party leader Elif Eralp declaring that they had "written history" as they took the stage to thunderous applause.
The dimly lit auditorium pulsed with excitement as the 45-year-old jurist became the first candidate of Turkish-German descent to potentially lead the city from the Red Town Hall. "We did this together," Eralp called out to the 19,000 party members, "all of us." In just one year, the party had doubled its membership from around 8,000 at the start of 2025 to over 17,000 by the end of the same year.
Currently, the party boasted approximately 19,000 members. During the campaign, the leftist party placed a strong emphasis on grassroots outreach, leveraging door-to-door conversations, phone calls, and neighborhood gatherings to win over voters and convert non-voters, attributing much of their success to this strategy.
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