\u201cFaced with the media, economic and political establishment that spent tens of millions of dollars to block his path, he managed to turn the tables with radically concrete proposals [\u2026] and without ever turning a blind eye to racism and Gaza,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Aubry and other European left-wing representatives, including a delegation from Germany\u2019s The Left party,\u00a0traveled to New York<\/a>\u00a0to learn lesson from the socialist wunderkind, who collected more than 50 percent of the vote Tuesday.<\/p>\n Aubry added: \u201cI saw the power of his campaign in action, led by our allies in the Democratic Socialists of America, which created a real popular momentum and doubled the voter turnout.\u201d<\/p>\n Mamdani will be the first Muslim mayor of New York City, and \u2014 like London\u2019s Khan \u2014 he has been verbally attacked by U.S. President Donald Trump, who suffered a bad night Tuesday<\/a> with a string of Democratic election victories around the country.<\/p>\n Green Budapest Mayor\u00a0Gergely Kar\u00e1csony, a frequent foe of Hungary\u2019s populist-nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n,\u00a0also congratulated Mamdani.<\/p>\n \u201cHow familiar it feels when the central government threatens a candidate it dislikes by saying they won\u2019t receive central support, and instead backs another so-called \u2018opposition\u2019 candidate,\u201d he wrote\u00a0in an Instagram post<\/a>, in reference to Trump\u2019s late endorsement of independent challenger Andrew Cuomo, the former governor of New York state.<\/p>\n