Muslim voters played a decisive role in the far-left Die Linke party’s victory in last week’s Berlin state elections, according to an analysis of religious-affiliation exit polling reported by Breitbart News.
Data collected by the Wahlen research group and obtained by the Catholic News Agency (KNA) shows that Die Linke — commonly known as The Left — won 51 percent of Muslim voters in the election held last Sunday. The figure suggests that if Muslims alone had cast ballots, the party would have secured an absolute governing majority in the Berlin state parliament.
Muslims are estimated to make up roughly 10 percent of Berlin’s overall population. No official religious breakdown of the electorate exists, but that estimate makes the community a significant voting bloc in the German capital.
Die Linke also drew strong support from voters with no religious affiliation. Among atheist and agnostic voters, 28 percent backed the far-left socialist party.
Christian Voters Split Sharply Toward the CDU
The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) dominated among the city’s Christian voters. The party took 30 percent of Catholic voters and 27 percent of Protestant voters. Die Linke, by comparison, won 17 percent of Catholics and 16 percent of Protestants. If only Christians had voted, the CDU would have won comfortably, according to the polling analysis.
The religious divide reflects a broader pattern in which Die Linke’s support was concentrated among younger, secular, and immigrant-origin voters, while the CDU leaned on older and more religiously observant constituencies.
A Party Rooted in East Germany’s Communist Past
Die Linke is a direct descendant of the Socialist Unity Party, which governed the Soviet-aligned East German state for decades and presided over the Ministry for State Security, known as the Stasi. Since reunification, the party has rebranded itself as a democratic socialist force but remains a target of criticism from mainstream parties.
The far-left party was also buoyed by young voters, particularly young women. Separate exit polling found that 51 percent of women under 25 cast their ballots for Die Linke, compared with 34 percent of young men. Overall, Die Linke won the most votes among young voters — 43 percent of the under-25 vote and 49 percent of the 25-to-34 vote.
Coalition Talks Underway — But Not Without Friction
Die Linke is now seeking to form a coalition government in Berlin with the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) and the environmentalist Greens. The party’s state executive committee voted on Friday to open “exploratory talks” with the two potential partners, according to Die Welt.
While the three parties are broadly aligned on policy, friction remains — particularly over accusations of antisemitism directed at Die Linke. SPD Deputy Chairman Alexander Schweitzer has called antisemitism a “clear problem” within the far-left party.
“It has to resolve this,” Schweitzer said. “Only then can the SPD accept it as a coalition partner in Berlin.”
The Social Democrat leader said there is room for “perfectly legitimate criticism of Israeli government policy” but argued that denial of Israel’s right to exist would violate Germany’s “post-war democratic consensus.”
Die Linke’s lead candidate in the elections — and potentially Berlin’s next mayor — is Turkish-heritage politician Elif Eralp. She has denied that her party has an antisemitism problem, saying that “as leftists, our empathy extends to all people.”
Police Concerns and a Controversial Guest
The prospect of Die Linke taking power has raised other concerns beyond the antisemitism debate. According to reports cited by Breitbart, Berlin police officials have expressed shock at the election outcome and have raised doubts about their ability to continue fighting crime under Die Linke’s “woke” leadership.
Die Linke has adopted a defund-the-police ethos in recent years, emphasizing social care in crime-prone communities instead of traditional policing. Die Welt noted particular concerns over clan crime networks among Turkish and other ethnic minority communities. The party has described the categorization of such organized crime groups as “problematic” and suggested that police raids on shisha bars may have stemmed from racism.
In a notable development on election night, an alleged clan boss, Issa Remmo, appeared at the election-night party for Die Linke’s Neukölln district branch, broadcaster NDR confirmed. The party said the purported head of the infamous Lebanese-heritage Remmo family was not invited and that the event was open to the public.
Remmo said he attended on his own initiative because he felt “supported by a party for the first time in Germany” and wanted to show his support for Die Linke against the antisemitism accusations.
The election results and the ongoing coalition negotiations will shape Berlin’s governance for years to come, with the composition of the city’s electorate — and the religious and demographic divides within it — now a central point of discussion among political observers.
Source: www.breitbart.com — https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/09/26/red-green-alliance-majority-of-muslim-voters-backed-victorious-far-left-die-linke-party-in-berlin-elections/