Overview
- Delegates at the Berlin Linke congress in Lichtenberg formally nominated 44-year-old jurist Elif Eralp as Spitzenkandidatin for next September’s Abgeordnetenhaus election.
- Her platform puts housing at the fore, pledging to implement the Mietenvolksentscheid, seek a rent cap for state-owned apartments, and pursue expropriation of large private landlords.
- Internally, two motions to label Israel’s Gaza war a genocide were withdrawn in favor of a compromise text that acknowledged Israeli victims and Palestinian suffering while noting the ICJ has not issued a final decision.
- Berlin’s CDU called on the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution to monitor Die Linke over alleged antisemitic and Israel-hostile positions.
- A BILD columnist attacked Eralp’s agenda as populist and questioned the constitutionality of parts of it, highlighting immediate media pushback.