Franziska Giffey, the SPD candidate to be the mayor of Berlin, won 21.4 percent of the vote, beating rival candidates from the Green party on 18.9 percent and the conservative CDU on 18.1 percent. READ ALSO: AS IT HAPPENED: Social Democrats narrowly win German election as CDU suffers historic lossesOpinion polls had shown Giffey running neck-and-neck with the Greens’ Bettina Jarasch. Giffey was previously families minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government, but resigned in May over claims she plagiarised her doctoral thesis. A total of 56.4 percent of Berliners voted yes in the referendum, preliminary results showed, though the result is not binding. 🎉🍾 Mit 56,4% hat sich die Mehrheit der wahlberechtigten Berliner:innen für die Vergesellschaftung der großen Immobilienkonzerne und damit gegen die Spekulation mit Wohnraum entschieden.

Source: The Local September 27, 2021 07:52 UTC