London mayor sees parallels in Zohran Mamdani’s victory: ‘Hope won’

Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York’s mayoral election has drawn comparisons with the London mayor, Sadiq Khan. Composite: The Guardian, Reuters

While the soon-to-be first Muslim mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, was in the final throes of his mayoral campaign on a brisk day in New York, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim of mayor of London, was wrapping up a two-day climate summit in a steamy if overcast Rio de Janeiro.

“Hope is not gone,” Khan told the 300 city mayors gathered in the Brazilian city’s museum of modern art.