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Memes: Elif Eralp jumps over the turnstile at Sanifair
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The reporting on the possible new left-wing Berlin mayor Elif Eralp is now taking on bizarre forms. Now users are reacting in social networks and making themselves known about FAZ & Co. funny.
In Saxony-Anhalthttps://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/sachsen-anhalt/landtagswahl/wahl-minister...a government under the right-wing extremist AfDand the election of Ulrich Siegmund as Prime Minister. But since the Left's election victory in Berlin, the media focus has shifted from Saxony-Anhalt to the Left Party and its top candidate Elif Eralp.
Thehttps://taz.de/Soziologe-zur-Aufregung-ueber-die-Linkspartei-Das-ist-ers...regular reporting, about which we alsohttps://netzpolitik.org/2026/kw-39-die-woche-in-der-mit-hufeisen-geworfe...wrote last weekly reviewMany people are now noticing it - and it has sparked a new meme online about what Elif Eralp has done again.
On Bluesky andhttps://www.reddit.com/r/berlin/comments/1wu4l4g/wie_soll_man_da_eine_ko...Numerous users are taking part in countering the current reporting with humor.
Elif Eralp breaks spaghetti before cooking. She ignored the sweeping week and “ate from my plate”. She has thrown white glass into the stained glass container, has crossed the street when the light is red, thrown candy wrappers next to the trash can and shares her Netflix account with people outside her household.
https://bskysearch.com/en/?tab=keySearch&q=Elif+eralp+hat&from=2...this stylepeople make fun of the fact that the alleged scandals are getting smaller and at the same time show what they think of the reporting. The taz even dedicated this type of journalismhttps://bsky.app/profile/taz.de/post/3mwqodgzqy22v">dietoday's front page.
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The latest excitement in reporting about the Berlin Left Party is Elif Eralp's former membership in the Red Aid, which the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is pushing through the media village. She wants to accuse the mayoral candidate of being a left-wing extremist. The State Office for the Protection of the Constitution mentions Rote Hilfe in its annual report as “by far the largest left-wing extremist organization” in Berlin. The information about membership was transparently available on Eralp's House of Representatives profile website.
“Witch Hunt” for Elif Eralp
Rote Hilfe is a left-wing legal aid organization that supports defendants in trials, for example by covering legal fees. The association and its predecessor organizations have existed for more than 100 years and currently have around 20,000 members. It's in BerlinLittenstrasseafter onehttps://taz.de/Biografie-ueber-Hans-Litten/!5860634/">berA famous lawyer from the Rote Hilfe environment was named. Its namesake became known to a larger audiencehttps://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Litten">HansLittenthrough the television series Babylon Berlinhttps://www.nordbayern.de/freizeit-events/anwalt-aus-babylon-berlin-stel...
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The SZ journalist Ronen Steinke mentioned how to deal with the possible mayor of Berlinhttps://bsky.app/profile/recht-gegen-rechts.bsky.social/post/3mwpto5m26s...ZDF morning magazine a “witch hunt”. Rote Hilfe is a non-governmental organization that provides legal defense to destitute people being prosecuted.
Everyone has the right to criminal defense in a constitutional state. “And that’s not fighting the system, it’s the system,” said Steinke. He is not concerned about Eralp's former membership in the Red Aid, but rather those who are increasingly "unobjectively scandalizing and beating up" the politician, Steinke continued.
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