Berlin election winners and losers - with the HEIST editors
The HEIST editors break down the major storylines of the Berlin election.
Show Notes
Die Linke won the Berlin state elections for the first time last week. In another historic first, their leader Elif Eralp could become the first mayor of Turkish descent.
But the backlash is here.
The impact of these kinds of electoral firsts can be hard to make out in the immediate aftermath, and the media cycles are spinning fast and heavy. So in this episode, HEIST founding editors Peter Matthews and Ruthie Weissmann join Ben Schuman-Stoler in breaking down what happened and how to make sense of the major storylines so far.
- Why did leaders from the CDU and SPD call the election “disastrous” and “catastrophic”?
- Will the other parties’ attacks keep Die Linke from governing?
- What is the Remmo clan, and why are they in the headlines?
- How did the left party win so decidedly?
- And what can other parties learn toward beating back the AfD’s gains everywhere else in Germany?
Music and sound by Patrick Nininger.