Elif Eralp: ‘Germany’s Zohran Mamdani’ who vows to be a mayor for all Berliners

Elif Eralp celebrates in Berlin after the state elections. Elif Eralp celebrates in Berlin after the state elections. Germany Profile Elif Eralp: ‘Germany’s Zohran Mamdani’ who vows to be a mayor for all Berliners Die Linke candidate, a lawyer affected by her experiences as the child of political migrants from Turkey, poised to head Berlin coalition government

Prefer the Guardian on Google Elif Eralp launched her election bid last autumn with the blunt statement: “People like me are actually not supposed to become mayor in this country.” So the fact that the 45-year-old lawyer and daughter of political migrants from Turkey is on the verge of becoming Berlin’s next mayor and the capital’s first leader of Turkish origin is quite the moment in German politics.