This 61-year-old Democrat becomes the second black edel in the history of the city. Former police officer, he had campaigned on the theme of security.
Le Monde with AFP
Eric Adams, an African-American, former police officer and anti-racist trade unionist, was elected Mayor of New York, announced Tuesday, November 2nd to the evening Associated Press (AP) followed by most major American media, based on Preliminary results.
The 61-year-old Democrat has widely defeated its Republican rival Curtis Sliwa, 67, according to the first results broadcast by the New York election office. It becomes the second black mayor of the history of the American economic and cultural capital.
“It’s a dream that is realized, I could not be more proud to represent this city that we all love,” he tweeted, immediately his well-known victory.
It’s Official – Our Five-Borough, Knock-Every-Door, Reach-Every-Vote Campaign Was Successful: We Have Won The Rac … https://t.co/gmfrrdpjiq//p>- EricadamsFornyc (@ Eric Adams)
Eric Adams was out of winning this summer of Republican primary after a security campaign. Then, his experience as a police officer had widely protected from the attacks of his republican opponent, Curtis Sliwa, founder of an anti-religious militia.
Beat by the police when he was a teenager
Eric Adams has relied on his personal career during the campaign. He told that he was beaten by police officers when he was a teenager. When he had later become a police officer, he had not hesitated to criticize the institution, remaining black agents and denouncing injustices.
However, in the wake of the protest movement that followed George Floyd’s death, he did not subscribe to the proposals from the left-wing of the Democratic Party, calling to switch certain grants allocated to the police. social programs, in order to act on the roots of crime.
It has also been particularly probusiness, with a thousand leagues statements from the muse of the American left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.