The Party The Left won today in the Berlin regional elections, with between 24% and 25.8% of the votes, against the 20% of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to the first projections of German public televisions.
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20/09/2026
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Nhowever, it is not yet certain who conquered the third and fourth places.
While the ZDF chain assigns the Greens the third place with 15.4% of the votes and relegates to the fourth place the far-right Alternative to Germany (AfD), with 13.8%, on the ARD channel the positions between these two parties reverse.
The ARD gives AfD 15.7% of the votes and Greens 15%.
The following are the Social Democratic Party (SPD), with 12%, and the left populist Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), with 5% on both stations.
Leftist Elif Eralp celebrated the victory by thanking the Berlin voters and announcing her intention to make Berlin a better place.
“ From today, we'll change our Berlin and make it a better place. I thank you for your confidence, also for my party and all those who supported us”, he added.
Following the repeated elections of 2023, the CDU, which at the time won, and the SPD ruled together.
Previously, since 2021, there was a coalition led by SPD and of which they were part Left and the Greens.
Eralp can become the party's first mayor of Berlin The Left, but to do so, will have to reach a coalition agreement with the Greens and SPD.
It would be a historic victory in a city where, since reunification, CDU and SPD have always alternated as the most voted parties.
One of the critical points in the negotiations is the party's proposal The Left to expropriate real estate consortia that have more than 3,000 apartments, which is rejected by SPD.
CDU candidate Stefan Evers said that it was necessary to accept the result “with humility”, but stressed that he was pleased to have managed to halt the downward trend that conservatives were registering in polls.
“ I know many of you would have wanted a better result. But we managed to fight the wind, thank you very much”, he added.
SPD candidate Steffen Krach congratulated The Left acknowledged that the result could not leave anyone satisfied within its party, having qualified it as “catastrophic”.
“It’s not a night of joy, it’s a catastrophic result for SPD. We fought, but we could not convince the SPD voters ", said.
“It’s one before and one after for SPD in Berlin. The SPD had traditionally been the party of Berlin. Not anymore”, he concluded.