{
  "id": 17429169,
  "title": "Berlin: Elif Eralp: „Werden uns nicht kleinkriegen lassen“",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/berlin-elif-eralp-werden-uns-nicht-kleinkriegen-lassen-17429169",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-31T15:19:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/berlin-weg-frei-fuer-rot-gruen-rote-koalitionsgespraeche-in-berlin/100266336.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Six weeks after Berlin's election, the path for a green-left-red coalition is now open. Following the Green Party and the SPD, the Left faction voted in favor at a party conference. Elif Eralp, the chief of the Berlin Left faction, emphasized her determination to become the city's mayor despite all oppositions. \"We will not allow ourselves to be cowed, and I will not give up,\" she stated at the state party conference. \"There is no day that goes by when we are not tried to force us and me into giving up,\" Eralp added. Even German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) was attempting to \"extort\" the coalition partners Green and SPD to prevent a green-left-red government in Berlin. The Left faction would withstand this \"wave of aggression.\" \"The people in this city have elected us for change, and we will deliver,\" Eralp asserted. \"They rightfully expect us to use every lever to improve their lives.\" Eralp spoke of a \"destructive dimension\" in external criticism: The accusations against her and her party had lost all meaning. \"Why? Because we intend to put people at the center of our politics and not profit. Because we intend to address the property question.\" In Berlin, the Left faction seeks to nationalize 160,000 apartments owned by large corporations.",
  "summary": "Viele Anwürfe von außen und die Debatte um Koalitionsverhandlungen. Auf einem Landesparteitag spricht die Berliner Spitzenlinke Eralp von einer „Angriffswelle“.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Politico EU",
        "title": "Elif Eralp and the Palestine Swamp",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/elif-eralp-und-der-palastina-sumpf",
        "published": "2026-10-30T04:30:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}