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On Sunday, Germany’s socialist party Die Linke won the Berlin elections for the first time. Like New York’s Zohran Mamdani, it beat the establishment parties by offering Berliners concrete action on rents and the cost of living.
The leftist Die Linke party won the most votes in Berlin, even as the far right AfD won a state election in the north.
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