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Happy caller year! In nan wee hours of 2026, Zohran Mamdani was sworn successful arsenic nan caller politician of New York City successful a backstage ceremonial successful nan abandoned beaux-arts subway position nether metropolis hall.
The antiauthoritarian socialist, 34, was sworn into office by nan New York lawyer general, Letitia James, surrounded by wife, Rama Duwaji, members of his contiguous family, including Mira Nair, his mother and a film-maker, and his father, Mahmood Mamdani, a professor of African studies astatine Columbia University.
And Mamdani, who becomes nan city’s first ever Muslim mayor, was sworn successful pinch his grandfather’s Qur’an. He told those present:
This is genuinely nan grant and nan privilege of a lifetime. I cannot hold to spot everyone tomorrow arsenic we statesman our term. After conscionable having taken my oath to go nan politician of nan metropolis of New York, I do truthful besides present successful nan aged metropolis hallway subway position – a testament to nan value of nationalist transit to nan vitality, nan health, nan bequest of our city.
The midnight ceremonial will beryllium followed by a 1pm nationalist arena astatine metropolis hallway during which nan caller politician will beryllium introduced by chap progressives Bronx Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and sworn successful by Vermont legislator Bernie Sanders.
We’ll beryllium covering each that here, truthful enactment tuned.
