The President of the New York borough of Brooklyn, Eric Adams, took a giant step to become on the Democratic Party candidate for Mayor of New York after being the most voted candidate as the first option andn the primary elections held this Tuesday, which released a multi-choice system.
With 75 percent of the ballots counted, former police officer Adams leads the count after 30.9 percent of Democratic voters have chosen him as the preferred candidate, under the new system. whereby voters could choose up to five candidates In order of preference, several local media reported.
In second place is Maya Wiley (21.3 percent), former adviser to current Mayor Bill de Blasio, and candidate of the most progressive wing of the Democratic Party, followed closely by the former director of the Department of Sanitation, Kathryn García (20.6 percent). hundred).
In theory, both still have a chance to win the ballot if they have been chosen as second choice many more times than Adams.
With the new system, since no applicant has obtained more than 50% of the support, now the person with the least support must be eliminated, in this case the unknown Isaac Wright, and then their votes must be distributed among the rest of the opponents. And so it goes on until one of the contestants adds more than half of the support.
However, the process of elimination of candidates will not be activated until next June 29 and the Electoral Board has warned that the final results may not be known until July 12.
Businessman, Andrew Yang, that the polls placed him behind Adams, he has been in fourth place and almost without options to achieve victory.
Yang and Garcia teamed up in the final stretch of the campaign, so if one of the two is eliminated, the other could benefit from the voters choosing him as a second option.
At Adams headquarters, set up in a Brooklyn nightclub, his spokesman Evan Thies He pointed out that although with this system, the person most chosen as the first option has a 96 percent chance of winning as the winner, it is time to wait.
Much less cautious was the councilman of Latino origin Ydanis Rodriguez who has supported Adams throughout the campaign.
“All the polls in this city have indicated that Eric Adams will be the next mayor. He has created the largest coalition,” Rodriguez said before stressing that it is an honor for him to be part of a “winning team.”
For the Republican Party, where only two opponents appeared, it has clearly been imposed Curtis Sliwa, the father of urban patrols “Guardian Angels” in front of Fernando Mateo, director and founder of the New York Taxi Drivers Federation.
Silwa will face the Democratic candidate in the elections scheduled for November, which all pools indicate that they will lean in favor of the Democratic Party, given the weight of the progressive electorate in the city.
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