Adams will take office next January becoming the second black mayor to run the city.
Former African-American police officer Eric Adams clearly won the New York mayoral elections on Tuesday with 70.5% of the support, when he takes 34% of the votes counted, according to local media projections.
Adams, a 61-year-old Democrat, was presented as the great favorite ahead of the Republican candidate, Curtis Sliwa, who has achieved 25% of the support so far, which according to various media such as The New York Times, makes impossible a eventual comeback.
In fact, with these results, Sliwa acknowledged his defeat in a speech delivered at his headquarters in which he insisted that his defeat does not mean that he abandons or surrenders.
Adams, current president of the New York District of Brooklyn, will take office next January, becoming the second black mayor to run the city, after David Dinkins, mayor of the Big Apple between 1990 and 1993.
The politician, representative of the moderate wing of his party, was projected with the winner given the overwhelming Democratic character of the city, where there are more than three million registered Democratic voters, compared to half a million Republicans.
Adams reached the presidential elections after winning the primaries last June, in which he ousted the most progressive wing of the party, which in recent years has gained momentum in New York, with politicians such as Congressmen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Jamaal Bowman.
The veteran politician, state senator between 2006 and 2013 and president of Brooklyn since 2014, stood for election as the right person to manage the city and appease the increase in insecurity and seeking to identify with the ordinary voter, insisting on his humble origins.
On January 1, he will relieve Bill de Blasio, also a Democrat, who has been in office for eight years.
Adams will have to deal with the various crises besetting America’s largest city: from security to the economic crisis, to homelessness and the increase in people who have become homeless or could be evicted from next year for defaults. (I)
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