Today, Berlin is holding an election for the 20th House of Representatives. Voting takes place in 78 constituencies: the first vote is for the individual candidate, the second for the party.
At the same time, the people of Berlin are voting for the twelve district councils. The last election took place on February 12, 2023 – a complete repeat of the botched election of 2021. The CDU and SPD have been in power ever since. Kai Wegner (CDU) remains Governing Mayor. However, his party is fielding Finance Senator Stefan Evers as its lead candidate.
In an INSA poll for Volt Berlin on the House of Representatives election, Die Linke is in the lead with 21 per cent, up one point on the survey of September 14. The CDU remains at 20 per cent. They are followed by the AfD (18 per cent, unchanged), the Greens (15 per cent, down 1) and the SPD (12 per cent, unchanged). The BSW stands at 5 per cent and would therefore achieve the five-per-cent threshold. Other parties account for 9 per cent.
The Berlin CDU candidate for Marzahn-Mitte, Bernd Siggelkow, described anti-Semitism as an “incredible problem” in an interview with the newspaper Die Welt. When asked about the consequences of the Left Party coming to power in Berlin, and the talk of expropriation and anti-Semitism there, Siggelkow said: “Some Jews in Berlin are calling on people to leave the city if the Left Party comes to power.”