(New York) The outgoing mayor of New York Eric Adams launched the campaign on Thursday for his re -election by accusing Zohran Mamdani, a young Democratic candidate marked on the left, of being born with a “silver spoon” and of having political experience only on social networks.
“I ask you for my re -election as mayor of the city of New York,” said the town hall Mr. Adams, surrounded by managers of different communities, who, before him, attacked the political show of the moment in the American metropolis: Zohran Mamdani in their own way.
Aged 33, this progressive Muslim immigrant won the Democrat primary by surprise in front of the tenor Andrew Cuomo, 67, former governor of New York who had resigned four in the wake of a sex scandal.
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Zohran Mamdani
“I am not interested in the policy on Twitter, what matters to me is that the garbage is collected,” said Adams.
“This is a choice between a blue collar candidate (…) and another born with a spoon of money,” he said by accusing his rival of fishing by “idealism” by wanting to “give everything to everyone, for free”. The day before, he had described it as a “snake oil seller”, in short charlatan who will not be able to deliver his promises.
The surprise victory of Zohran Mamdani, who must still be confirmed by the Democratic Party, sounded like a local political thunder, but also national, the Republicans of Donald Trump accusing him of being a “communist”.
In New York, the capital of finance, the business circles are concerned about the possible election of a mayor who proposes to increase the minimum wage to $ 30 an hour by 2030 and increase taxes for the rich, while more conservative circles badly digest his criticism of Israel.
“When we launched this campaign, we did it to prevent a second term from Eric Adams,” said Zohran Mamdani. He notably accuses the mayor, elected mayor in 2021 as a democrat, of letting the Trump administration carry raids against migrants in exchange for the burial of prosecution for corruption against him.
According to surveys, Mr. Mamdani goes into pole position before the Republican (right) Curtis Sliwa and Eric Adams (Center) for the November municipal election in the first city in the United States. Democating in the Democratic primary, the centrist Andrew Cuomo is still gauge a possible candidacy as independent which could come to blur the cards.
