Elif Eralp, a 45-year-old Muslim politician and daughter of Turkish immigrants, could become Berlin’s next Governing Mayor after her far-left Die Linke party finished first in the German capital’s state election.
Eralp has openly drawn inspiration from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, saying during the campaign: “If a leftist can win in New York, then certainly in Berlin too.”
She wants to transfer roughly 220,000 apartments owned by private landlords into public ownership and impose rent controls.