Overview
- Die Linke’s Berlin leadership unanimously nominated Elif Eralp as Spitzenkandidatin, with a formal vote expected at a 175‑delegate party meeting in Lichtenberg.
- Two motions from the party’s Palestine solidarity group seek to decriminalize BDS and to label Israel’s Gaza campaign as genocide, clashing with a leadership consensus text.
- State co-chairs Kerstin Wolter and Maximilian Schirmer are promoting a compromise that acknowledges suffering among Palestinians and Israeli victims of the 2023 Hamas attack.
- Veteran leftist Petra Pau urged an unequivocal stance against antisemitism, calling for a sober, cross‑party fight against all forms of group‑focused hostility.
- Eralp’s campaign centers on housing and costs, including implementing the expropriation referendum, a rent cap for public landlords, and a luxury villa tax, as the party aims to overtake the CDU after recent momentum.