New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani admits he wants to take aggressive action on socialist agenda

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has admitted he plans to take aggressive action on his budget-busting socialist agenda, defiantly declaring: “It is a mandate.”

Fresh off the back of his election victory, the Democratic socialist wasted no time in vowing to follow through on his bold and unabashedly progressive plans — including taxing the rich.

“I’m also looking to be clear about the mandate that we won over the course of this election, and it is a mandate to deliver on the agenda that we ran on,” the 34-year-old told The New York Times on Wednesday.

Mamdani’s audacious admission came after the Democratic Socialists of America “army” quickly took credit for his win over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo — crowing, too, that it was a “clear mandate” for its radical, far-left agenda.

“Our movement is at the heart of Zohran’s campaign,” Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of DSA’s New York City chapter, said.

“This overwhelming victory is a clear mandate for a democratic socialist agenda to make New York City one that people can afford.

“MAGA billionaires spent millions to prop up Andrew Cuomo and try to stop this movement, but we’ve proved once again: they have money, but we have power,” he added.

The newly emboldened mayor-elect’s remarks also doubled down on his fire-breathing victory speech from Tuesday night where he repeatedly insisted his win was a “mandate for change.”

Critics were quick to raise alarm about Mamdani’s shift in tone — with some noting that the rage-filled speech was a “character switch” and far-cry from the appeasing demeanor he tried to exude on the campaign trail.

“My supporters and our movement are hungry for a politics of consistency — a politics that actually focuses on the needs of working people,” Mamdani said in the post-election interview.

“I think that our tax system is an example of the many ways in which working people have been betrayed.”
So far, Mamdani hasn’t named any DSA members who will join the ranks of his transition team.

Instead, he only announced Wednesday a transition team largely made up of City Hall veterans who served under former mayors Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio, as well as soon-to-depart Mayor Eric Adams.

The lefty group’s proud card-carrying members, though, were said to crowing behind the scenes about soon infiltrating City Hall, sources told The Post.

Asked if he planned appoint any DSA allies, Mamdani appeared to dodge the question, saying “I am looking forward to having every member of my coalition be a part of our transition.”

“The transition will be guided by the work that we need to do, and the coalition that brought me to this point has done an immense amount of work and has also been leading in the fight for dignity, for a working-class Democratic Party.”