Overview
- About 175 delegates in Berlin confirmed Elif Eralp by acclamation at a Lichtenberg party congress, marking the formal launch of the 2026 campaign.
- Eralp put housing at the center of her platform, pledging a rent cap for roughly 380,000 state-owned apartments and implementation of the expropriation referendum.
- Delegates in Berlin adopted a compromise motion on the Gaza war that addresses both Palestinian and Jewish suffering, while proposals on decriminalizing BDS and labeling Israel’s actions as genocide were withdrawn.
- In Saxony-Anhalt, the party nominated Eva von Angern to lead its 2026 bid and approved a revised lead motion setting social policy priorities, with the candidate list to be finalized in March.
- Tensions surfaced in Saxony-Anhalt as lawmaker Nicole Anger criticized internal practices, and polls place the Left at about 11–13 percent behind the AfD and CDU, with the AfD near 40 percent.