Elif Eralp

I feel like this is partly about the party leadership disciplining the party base.

Um, so, you know, if we look at Eralp, she's more from the kind of the center or, you know, you could call it the, the moderate or the governing wing of the party.

That's the potential future mayor from Die Linke, just for-

Mm-hmm

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the names here.

Elif Eralp, um, so-called Berlin's Mamdani, but, uh, never ne- was actually behind a lot of her party on the Palestine question, unlike Mamdani, who was, you know, far in advance of the Democrats.

Um, and she has always been a l- she's always been a little bit skeptical of, um, you know, been very willing to come out and denounce kind of Palestine solidarity when, in her view, it's gone too far.

Garbage, sanitation, parks, the whole catalog.

So residential Arnona is a loss leader, which means cities are structurally hungry for the other kind.

The commercial kind.

Businesses pay far more per square meter and consume relatively few services.

Berlin.

Berlin.

Die Linke's leader in Berlin, Elif Eralp, has been called Germany's Mamdani.

On September twenty-ninth, she pledged to expropriate two hundred thousand apartments from corporate landlords.

She does a verbal slip.

And she's trying to introduce this thing where, like a clip of Elif Eralp, the leader of the Linke in Berlin.

And she says, in this clip, Ilif Ilralp says she is an antisemite.

And then she goes, oh no, what I meant was she is not an antisemite.

They've done an Eilantrag, the Constitutional Court, and this lawyer I spoke to said that, yeah, that means it'll take about three months rather than five years.

Yeah.

And part of the lawsuit is to do with this will disadvantage Elif Eralp when she's trying to form a government in Berlin and all this other stuff.

So there you go.

[laughs] Oh, gorgeous.

Frau Elif Eralp, who is the daughter of Turkish political dissidents, who is the head of the Left Party, and the likely new mayor/governor of Berlin.

I think, uh, she has put together a coalition.

It needs to be formally signed, but she's nearly there according to what, what I read yesterday in her own interview.

So as everyone knows, Die Linke won the election.

Riff, Elif, Eralp.

[chuckles] By about 26%.

Um, the Greens and Die Linke have signaled that they wanna start Sondierungsgespräche, which is sort of like the meetings before the meetings, um, to discuss a possible coalition, which would be headed by Die Linke.

And of course, the conservative and pro-Israel newspapers like Tagesspiegel and Springer and Bild and all these people, they are just totally laying into Elif Eralp and Die Linke because they're accusing them of antisemitism- So accusing them of basically wanting to install a Islamo-socialist caliphate sort of in its headquarters in Neukölln.

Um-

You know what? They-

And so there's the idea that They have a problem with anti-Semitism.

And you saw that also on election night when the co-leader of the Greens came out and said, we won't enter government with a party that's led by anti-Semites from Neukirn.

Right, which is a dog

whistle of basically saying Muslims.

I mean, so they've actually governed Berlin for 37 years in a row in Berlin.

You know, this is like a party of the unions, party of the workers.

I mean, you're talking about a string of bad SPD politicians and leaders nationally and locally.

So actually, former Berlin mayor Franziska Giffey lost her local seat in Rudow, south of Neukölln, to the CDU and...