Overview
- Delegates unanimously endorsed Elif Eralp as lead candidate at the Berlin party conference, tasking her with pursuing a red‑red‑green government and the mayoralty.
- Eralp foregrounded housing affordability, pledging expropriation of large private landlords and implementation of stronger rent controls, including the Mietenvolksentscheid.
- Two controversial motions on Gaza were withdrawn for a compromise that acknowledges suffering on both sides and notes that genocide allegations remain undecided by international courts.
- Debate over BDS was defused through last‑minute negotiations, reflecting a tactical push for internal unity ahead of the state election campaign.
- The CDU’s Berlin leadership called for constitutional‑protection scrutiny of Die Linke over alleged antisemitism, and a BILD columnist accused Eralp of populism and promoting unconstitutional ideas.