The mayor of New York, Adams, leaves the breed of re -election without approving the remaining candidates, but warns that “extremism develops in our policy”

In a video published on social networks, Adams spoke with pride of his achievements as mayor, including a drop in violent crimes. But he said that “speculation of constant media” on his future and the decision of the city’s finance council to retain public funding from his re -election effort made it impossible to stay in the race.

“Despite everything we have accomplished, I cannot continue my re -election campaign,” said Adams.

The decision of the Democrat of a term to leave the race occurs for days after having insisted on the fact that he would remain in the competition, saying that the everyday New Yorkers “do not go”.

But the speculations that he would not come on the day of the ballot has been endemic for a year. Adams’ campaign was seriously injured by his federal corruption that is now distributed and his liberal anger in the face of his warm relationship with President Donald Trump. He jumped the Democratic primary and went up on the ballot as an independent.

In the video, Adams not mentioned or approved the remaining candidates of the race directly. He also warned that “extremism is increasing in our policy”.

“Major change is welcome and necessary, but beware of those who claim the answer (is) to destroy the very system that we have built during generations,” he said. “It’s not a change, it’s chaos. Instead, I urge managers to choose the leaders not by what they promise, but by what they have delivered.

The capitulation of Adams could potentially provide an elevator to the campaign of former governor Andrew Cuomo, another centrist who described himself as the only candidate potentially able to beat the candidate of the Democratic Party, the Member of the State Assembly Zohran Mamdani.

It was not clear, however, if enough Adams supporters would transfer their allegiances to Cuomo to make a difference.

Mamdani, who, at 33, would be the youngest and most liberal mayor of the city in generations if he were elected, beaten Cuomo in a decisive manner in the Democratic primary by campaigning on a promise trying to reduce the cost of living in one of the most expensive cities in the world.

The Republican Curtis Sliwa also remains in the race, although his candidacy has been undermined by his own party; Trump in a recent interview called him “not exactly the prime hours”.

New York governor Kathy Hochul, who approved Mamdani, said in a statement after the mayor’s announcement that she was proud to have worked with Adams in the past four years, and that he leaves the city “better than he inherited him”.

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