The Labor Party Sadiq Khan was re-elected for the third consecutive time as mayor of London after the partial municipal elections held on Thursday in England, according to the count of all the areas that make up the British capital released this Saturday.
Khan, the first Muslim to become Mayor of the British capital, has obtained 1,088,000 votescompared to the 813,000 ballots for the conservative candidate Susana Hallaccording to figures reported by the media before the official Labor victory ceremony.
Polls on voting intentions indicated the victory of the progressive candidate as certain.
The Labor politician had entered the Mayor’s Office of the capital for the first time in 2016.after the conservative’s mandate Boris Johnsonwho was prime minister after being mayor.
The result in London was released after the conservatives suffered a severe blow in the partial municipal elections in England held on Thursday, which have served to know the opinion of the electorate in the face of the general elections scheduled for the second half of the year in the United Kingdom.
When the results of 103 of the 107 town councils in the running have been announced, Keir Starmer’s Labor takes control of 48, eight more than in the 2021 electionswhile heThe “Tories” lose ten and are left with six town councilswhile the Liberal Democratic Party wins two and controls twelve. The rest is distributed among smaller parties.
The mayor has powers over transport, police and housing, and a large part of the city’s budget depends on the contribution made by the central government.
Khan, who was formerly MP for the Tooting constituency in south London, is responsible for a metropolis of more than eight million inhabitants, in which 44% of the population is part of an ethnic minority.
During the campaign, The politician promised that in his third term in local government he will recruit 1,300 additional police officers to reinforce security in the neighborhoods, following a sharp increase in knife crime on the streets.
Besides, will maintain the decision made last year to expand the ultra-low emissions zone (ULEZ, in English), which requires the payment of a fee for the most polluting vehicles, a measure that received criticism and that Susan Hall had promised to eliminate.
Likewise, Khan wants to keep transport fares under control, something that will be an absolute priority, he said, due to the rising cost of living for Londoners.
(With information from EFE)
