🇩🇪 🇹🇷 🛠 Die Linke finished first in Berlin's state election today (~25%) with a 13-point surge, led by Elif Eralp, a 45-year-old lawyer of Turkish origin. If she becomes governing mayor, she'd be Berlin's first Turkish-origin mayor, Germany's first female state leader with a migration background, and the first Linke politician to lead the capital. Her campaign was compared to New York mayor Zohran Mamdani's. Her team actually exchanged ideas with Mamdani's campaign. Media have called her "Berlin's Mamdani." Housing drove the vote. 85% of Berliners rent and advertised rents have doubled since 2014. Her central promise is implementing the 2021 referendum to take ~240,000 private apartments into public ownership. Coalition talks will determine whether she actually governs — a Linke-Greens-SPD bloc or a CDU-Greens-SPD coalition are both mathematically possible. 📎 Clash Report
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