DiEM25 warmly congratulates Zohran Mamdani on his historic victory as mayor of New York City. His election is not only a triumph for progressive politics in the United States, but a beacon of hope for everyone committed to building democracy from below, challenging oligarchic rule, and advancing a politics rooted in solidarity, justice and accountability.

Mamdani’s win in one of the world’s greatest cities, as the first Muslim and first South Asian mayor of New York, emerging from grassroots organising, marks a powerful break both with the entrenched elites and with the narrative that the status quo is immutable.

It embodies exactly the kind of change that DiEM25 stands for: democracy that does not just symbolise the people but enables them; politics that serves the many, not the few.

His agenda, based on affordable housing, fair wages, fare-free public transport, and reclaiming public goods from the billionaire class, speaks to our philosophy: that the people must reclaim the economy and the public sphere from oligarchs and turn them into commonwealths.

It is also an affirmation that democracy means something real when it addresses the working class, the vulnerable, the marginalised – and not merely pays lip-service to them.

Moreover, Mamdani proves that progressive movements can win in the heart of global capitalism, which bolsters our conviction that Europe, too, need not resign itself to neoliberal austerity or the undermining of democratic rights. This victory is an invitation: if it can happen in New York, it can happen in major European cities too.

But the victory is not the end – it is a beginning. For DiEM25, this moment reaffirms our resolve to support and build transnational democratic alliances, where cities, regions and peoples organise across borders. We call on progressive forces everywhere to draw from this example, to link up our struggles for housing, public transport, workers’ rights, and democratic renewal – not just locally, but globally.

To Zohran Mamdani: you have stepped into the challenge – but the people you represent have also now embraced a mandate. May you prove worthy of it, may you act boldly, may you invite the many into the halls of power and transformation.

And to all of us: let us use this triumph as proof that democracy is not done – let us push harder, build broader, reach further. Solidarity knows no borders, and today New York shows that the people’s will can bend the arc of politics.

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