Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the most eminent progressive leader in New York, approved the deputy Zohran Mamdani for the mayor on Thursday, throwing his weight behind a socialist who galvanized the young voters.
Approval, shared in an interview with the New York Times, perhaps represented the most important attempt to date to push the fractured progressives towards a single strategy to block former governor Andrew M. Cuomo Return to power.
“The assembly of the Mamdani Assembly has demonstrated a real capacity on the ground to constitute a coalition of New York of the working class which is the strongest to direct the pack,” said Ms. Ocasio-Cortez. “In the last section of the race, we must become very real on this subject.”
Time is gasoline. With only weeks before The Democrat primary of June 24Mr. Cuomo maintained a regular survey advance, arousing memories of 2021, when progressives have not merged and lost the mayor to a moderate.
By raising the assembly, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, 35, chose the candidate closest to his own mold. Mr. Mamdani, 33, is a left representing queens, a millennium and a person of color who entered the race as a long -term shot to go to second place by Support for base support With memorable political proposals and viral videos.
Its platform echoes the deputy and inspired the decline of more moderate democrats. He wants to make the city’s buses free, the increases in freeze on the apartments stabilized to the rent and the open grocery stores managed by the city – all funded by an increase in taxes of $ 10 billion on companies and the Superrich. He was also a criticism of Israel.
