New Yorkers eager to change massively elected a Democrat Tuesday firmly anchored on the left, Bill de Blasio, to turn the page of their billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in power for 12 years.
De Blasio, an Italian-American 52 year old married to an African-American, crushed his Republican opponent Joe Lhota, with over 70% of the vote according to incomplete results.
“New Yorkers have asked loudly a new direction for our city, united in the idea that no New Yorker should be left on the wayside,” said Mr. de Blasio on Tuesday night, thanking its supporters, surrounded by his wife and their two mixed-race children, he had placed at the center of his campaign.
“Tackling inequalities is not easy, it never has been. Problems will not be solved in a day (…) But I’ll never stop fighting,” he has said.
Earlier in the day, after voting all smiles in the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn, Mr. de Blasio all polls showed widely winner, had already mentioned “many New Yorkers struggling to make ends meet” .
He reiterated his determination to “get away from the policies of the Bloomberg era” in a town to the vertiginous inequalities, but has been completely transformed during the years Bloomberg: safer, greener, healthier and hosted Last year a record 52 million tourists.
Voters, many of whom welcomed the report of Mr. Bloomberg, went to vote without passion, after a fierce campaign but without breath, as Mr. de Blasio, the city elected mediator, former councilor of Brooklyn (2002 – 2009) and former manager of Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the Senate in 2000, has pierced belatedly.
During his campaign, he has largely emphasized its multiracial family, his wife Chirlane McCray, poet, former lesbian extremely active, and their two children, Dante, 16 and Chiara, 18 years: a “modern family” image a multiracial city, now at 33.3% white, 25.5% black, 28.6% Hispanic and 12.7% Asian.
“Progressive, proud of it”
New York, the largest city in the United States with 8.3 million people, has six times more Democratic voters than Republicans, but was not elected Democratic mayor since 1989.
She was not the only American city to vote Tuesday.
Boston, Seattle, Detroit and Atlanta, also elected their mayor.
In the very Democratic New Jersey, Republican Chris Christie easily won a second term as governor, strong personality now unavoidable in view of the 2016 presidential election.
Virginia also elected a new governor, in a hotly contested election, narrowly won by Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a great friend of the Clintons, who will succeed a Republican.
In New York, after Rudolph Giuliani (1994-2001) and Michael Bloomberg (2002-2013), Bill de Blasio, was positioned on top of the 1.95 m as a “progressive, proud of it,” defender the middle classes, families and minorities.
He promised much denounced every day inequalities in the city with about 400,000 millionaires and the most billionaires in the world, but 21% of the population lives below the poverty line.
He pledged to build 200,000 social housing, defend the district hospitals and replace the head of the police, due to the controversial practice of searches of pedestrians (“stop and frisk”) especially for young black and Latino . Its main idea is to impose a higher tax on the wealthiest New Yorkers to fund preschool for all children from 4 years.
Joe Lhota, 58, his Republican opponent, former president of the New York Transportation (MTA), had said on Tuesday, without conviction, that he was “very optimistic.” Former deputy Rudolph Giuliani, devoid of any charisma, he had unsuccessfully put forward his experience facing Blasio, who has admitted himself that he never managed more than 250 people.
Some 300,000 people work for the city of New York, where de Blasiosucceed Michael Bloomberg on January 1.
New York elects new mayor Bill de Blasio and turns left
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