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Added on the 07/07/2021 19:12:00 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Ex-policeman Eric Adams was elected New York City's next mayor on Tuesday and will become just the second African American to lead the United States's largest city. SOUNDBITE
Black former policeman Eric Adams casts his vote for mayoral election during which he is guaranteed to be elected as the next leader of America's biggest city. The centrist Democrat is expected to trounce Republican candidate and volunteer crime fighter Curtis Sliwa in the liberal-voting bastion to become just the second African American to lead the Big Apple. IMAGES
New Yorkers head to the polls in a mayoral election that is virtually guaranteed to elect Black former policeman Eric Adams as the next leader of America's biggest city. IMAGES
New York (USA), Feb 11 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Alba Vigaray) The chair occupied by Bill de Blasio, the current mayor of New York, "the capital of the world" as many New Yorkers like to call it, will be empty this year and some thirty politicians, activists and business owners have already set their sights on it: The race has only just begun.FOOTAGE OF NEW YORK.
This week President-elect Joe Biden nominated Pete Buttigieg to lead the Department of Transportation. According to Business Insider the news of the nomination was met with derision and some lighthearted chuckling. "Mayor Pete" had overseen the city of South Bend, Indiana. Their total population is a fraction of what a mass transit system like New York's can handle in an hour. Is Mayor Pete really the right guy to commandeer America's freight, air, rail and road? With a crumbling infrastructure and COVID still raging, only time will tell if he can handle the monumental job ahead of him.