Elif Eralp Net Worth

Background and career

Elif Eralp (German pronunciation: [ˈeːlɪf ˈɛʁalp]; born 14 January 1981) is a German lawyer and politician of Die Linke who has been a member of the Berlin House of Representatives since November 2021. She has served as co-leader of the parliamentary group since 2026, and as deputy state chair of the party since 2025.

Eralp was born in Munich to parents who had fled Turkey after the military coup of September 1980 and claimed asylum in West Germany. She studied law at the University of Hamburg, passed both German state examinations in law, and worked from 2010 to 2021 as a legal policy adviser to Die Linke's parliamentary group in the Bundestag. Her political work has focused on anti-racism, anti-discrimination and housing policy.

She was Die Linke's lead candidate in the 2026 Berlin state election, in which the party took 25.7 per cent of the list vote and won 47 of the 158 seats, becoming the largest party in the House of Representatives for the first time. Because the Governing Mayor of Berlin is elected by the House of Representatives, Eralp has been widely named as a candidate for the office. Die Linke invited the Greens and the SPD to exploratory talks the day after the election, and a Christian Democrat-led coalition under Stefan Evers also remained arithmetically possible.