(New York) The rising star of the New American Left Zohran Mamdani, who has become the target of verbal attacks by Republican President Donald Trump, won the Democratic primary for New York town hall with a greater advance than expected according to the full results published on Tuesday.
Mr. Mamdani, 33, confused the pollsters last week by climbing first in the Democratic primary before the former New York governor, Andrew Cuomo, 67, who was trying to return after a sex scandal.
In the first round of this complex election, where democratic voters had to prioritize their preference among a dozen candidates, Zohran Mamdani had raised 43 % of the vote, against 36 % for Mr. Cuomo who had conceded the victory without waiting for the complete results. However Zohran Mamdani finally crossed the majority threshold (56 %) with twelve points ahead of Mr. Cuomo (44 %), after postponement of voice, according to these complete results unveiled on Tuesday.
“The Democrats have given a clear mandate in favor of an affordable city, of a political vision of the future and for a leader who is not afraid to fight against the rise of authoritarianism,” reacted Mr. Mamdani on Tuesday.
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His victory, which was not in doubt, propelled him to the front of the political scene in the United States, while the Democratic Party seeks a leadership after the Biden years and the defeat of Kamala Harris in the November presidential election against Donald Trump.
Born in Uganda, a Muslim of Confession, saying himself “socialist” and activist of the Palestinian cause, Zohran Mamdani federated the young people of the party, but also attracted the wrath of conservative circles which qualify him as “radical” or, like Donald Trump, of “communist”.
In an interview on Sunday on the program “Meet the Press” of the NBC channel, Zohran Mamdani said “not being” communist while tiding the ultra -ties. “I don’t think we should have billionaires […]but I’m going to work with everyone, “he added.
“I heard that it was a real crazy and I think that if people from New York are going on this path, they are crazy,” Donald Trump said on Tuesday morning interviewed on the ascent of Zohran Mamdani.
Later during the day, the Republican president once again attacked the candidate for the town hall of New York, son of the academic Mahmoud Mamdani and the filmmaker Mira Nair, naturalized American in 2018.
“Several people say that he is here illegally […] We are going to look at that, “said the president, according to national media, suggesting that he was going to” arrest “Zohran Mamdani if he opposed the raids of the immigration police (ICE) in New York.
“We will not accept this intimidation,” said Mamdani, seeing the president’s statements a “attack” against democracy and the New Yorkers who “refuse to lug in the shadows”.
During the municipal election of the first American city, in November, Zohran Mamdani will face the outgoing mayor Eric Adams, a democrat marked on the right, hailed by Trump on Tuesday and who presents himself as independent, and the republican Curtis Sliwa.
Andrew Cuomo juggles the possibility of running for the town hall under an independent banner, his team said on Tuesday, adding that he was currently leading “discussions” to “determine the future stages”.
