The Democrat, who has been running Brooklyn since 2014, becomes the second black mayor of the history of megalopoly where the economic and social inequalities are extremely marked.
Le Monde with AFP and Reuters
He had relied on his experience as a police captain and black man who suffered police brutality in his youth to campaign on security. He had the advocate of the middle and popular classes and the fight against racial discrimination. The Democrat Eric Adams was elected Mayor of New York, Tuesday, November 2, crushing his Republican rival, Curtis Sliwa, throating 67% of the votes cast, according to preliminary results of the office of the elections of the city.
It becomes the second black mayor of New York’s story, after being the first black elected at the head of Brooklyn in 2014. Aged 61, he will succeed another Democrat, Bill de Blasio, in January, in a city ranked left but where economic and social inequalities are extremely marked. “We are so divided now that we no longer see the beauty of our diversity, affirmed the new edel, all smiles, white shirt and thumb lifted in front of its supporters gathered in a hotel of Brooklyn. Today, we take on one and one Same jersey, New York. “
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This victory is in fact a consecration for Mr. Adams, raised by disadvantaged parents of Brooklyn and Queens where he has experienced violent delinquency and police arrests before becoming a police captain and create a union of Fight against racism, 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, in 1995.
“We are not just talking about security, we will have security,” he promised his support on Tuesday night. Given the increase in crime in New York in 2020, the former policeman did not make it that promising additional means for law enforcement. He has also promised to continue the reform of the country’s largest police force (NYPD, 36,000 employees).
In a city that paid a heavy tribute to the pandemic (34,000 deaths), Mr. Adams will also have to manage the return to normal in schools, offices and businesses, and fight against glaring social inequalities and Mal-housing. In order to respond to the latter challenge, the elected official had announced during his campaign that he would endeavor to put more low-income residents in contact with the municipal services they are entitled but they do not use.