Europe’s left flocks to New York to take notes on Mamdani’s meteoric rise

Politico ^ | November 3, 2025 | Victor Goury-Laffont, Nette Nöstlinger and Martin Alfonsin Larsen

[MinorityRepublican]

Zohran Mamdani’s rise from little-known New York state assemblyman to front-runner in the New York mayoral election has sparked a newfound sense of optimism among left-wing politicians in Europe ahead of their own local elections next year.

Party strategists from across Europe are making the trek across the Atlantic to learn from the millennial who skyrocketed from anonymity to the precipice of the most important city in the United States (or the world, if you ask a New Yorker).

They want to see if Mamdani’s grassroots campaign, which has been laser-focused on affordability issues, will work in their cities and regions as well as it did for him in New York’s Democratic Party primary — and potentially in Tuesday’s general election.

Manon Aubry, the French co-chair of The Left group in the European Parliament — which gathers Europe’s democratic socialist, left-wing populist and some communist lawmakers — traveled to New York last week where she took part alongside Mamdani canvassers in the campaign’s final stretch.

Aubry and her party, France Unbowed, see Mamdani as an example of how to bring about “radical change” as they look to make a splash in the municipal elections that will take place across France in 2026.

Germany’s anti-capitalist party, The Left, sent four officials to the Big Apple to meet with officials including the Mamdani campaign’s chief of strategy, Morris Katz. Party Co-Chair Ines Schwerdtner and Maximilian Schirmer, co-chair of The Left’s Berlin branch, also paid a visit.

Liza Pflaum, parliamentary office manager for The Left’s other co-chair, Jan van Aken, said she believed her party had exceeded expectations in Germany’s February federal election by using the same playbook as Mamdani: focusing on cost-of-living issues, courting small donors, and investing heavily in door-to-door volunteer operations.

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[rktman]

They’re close allready. No pointers needed.

[Texas Eagle]

European scorpions gather to see how Mamdani persuaded NY frogs to give him ride across the river.

[Leaning Right]

> Party strategists from across Europe are making the trek across the Atlantic… <

Well, I hope the ladies have packed their burkas. Because it’s only polite to wear one when a Muslim is in charge.

P.S. Don’t wear a white burka. That would be racist. I guess.

[blackdog]

New York City politics has a very poor bench. Let’s not confuse meteoric rise with Zorhan “Chauncey Gardener” Mandami and his everything is free plans to build an Islamo-Fascism western front headquarters.

[Brian Griffin]

“affordability”

I read Apple is expecting about $140 billion in revenue in a quarter.

[Brian Griffin]

Mamdani is too expensive even for billionaires.

Ask around Palm Beach about tax refugees.

Bringing brown stone from New Mexico is cheaper than NYC taxes.

[healy61]

How does one save the planet, living a green life, then flock to New York to take notes that are available on line. The flockers are certifiable, and ruining our planet.

[Salman]

The "meteoric rise" (do meteors rise?) means he had someone promoting him behind the scenes.

Someone with real power within the Democratic Party.

My guess is Obama.

[PIF]

They are especially interested in see how a city that was attacked on 911 and had thousands killed by violent Sunni muslims is about to elect a even more violent Iranian Shia 12er as its leader.

[PIF]

Or a grey burka as that would signal you out as a hooker