How Zohran Mamdani's Progressive Victory Inspires European Left-Wing Movements Against Rising Right-Wing Forces

Nov 06, 2025 02:44 am CST

New York City's newly elected mayor Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, has energized left-wing political parties across Europe with his successful campaign focused on rent controls and taxing the wealthy. European progressive parties from Britain to Germany are drawing inspiration from his unapologetically radical agenda, seeing it as a blueprint to counter right-wing momentum in their own countries by focusing on economic inequality and cost-of-living concerns rather than diluting their core principles.