Elif Eralp looks like it should mean something when spelled backwards
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Great to hear Die Linke in Berlin found electoral success. Here’s the next, very crucial step for them… show how the left can actually govern.
Build the bike lanes. Fill the potholes, speed up the works. Freeze the rent. Tax the rich and prosecute greedy and negligent landlords. D the EI. Show that a motivated and sufficiently compensated civil service can get real things done for people. Work with
State and(edit: Berlin is its own state headed by its Mayor) Federal governments to get the required money to undertake things big and small in your city. Give homeless people a path off the streets and into recovery and supportive shelter. Show that the likes of AfD and centre-right parties are actually the do-nothing whiners. That will bring people from all sides, conservative, centrist and progressive, onto your side, and is part of Mamdani’s secret sauce. I’m hoping for the same for Katie Wilson in Seattle USA and mayor hopefuls like Nithya Raman of LA.They’ve governed before. They still don’t have a majority so they will have to do another coalition with social democrats and greens like they have in the past. Although this time Die Linke has a much bigger share so hopefully they can get their way and set the tone. It’s not yet clear if Eralp will be elected mayor either afaik
Either way I hope it doesn’t backfire like last time when they passed rent control which was overturned by the federal constitutional court
Upvoted for the Leonard Cohen reference alone.
Right?!? Never see them in the wild anymore.
