De Blasio announced that he will not run for governor of New York

I am not going to be running for Governor of New York State, but I am going to devote every fiber of my being to fight inequality in the state of New York. pic.twitter.com/cBZ03BpO0s

— Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) January 18,

De Blasio submitted to the Electoral Board in November the necessary documents to create a fundraising committee funds, and there was an expectation that an announcement would be made in this regard.

In this way, the former mayor will avoid facing Governor Kathy Hochul in the primaries, who replaced Andrew Cuomo after leaving office for the controversy over the complaint of sexual harassment he faced.

De Blasio’s announcement, whose term ended last 31 December, it happened from his neighborhood, and he recalled that it was there where nine years ago he announced that he would run for mayor, and where he raised his children.

“We demonstrated that together we can achieve great changes”, pointed out De Blasio, who reported that in the next days will give more details about his plans.

The attorney general of New York, Letitia James, announced that she would run for the position; however, two days later he reported that he was withdrawing his candidacy.

During his controversial management as mayor of New York, De Blasio admitted mistakes, but highlighted a list of projects that he considered successful in his administration, such as the fight against COVID-18, police reform and expansion of preschool education.

For his part, Eric Adams, former police officer and former state senator from 61 years, took office as mayor of New York on January 1, minutes after the end of the year in Times Square, under the challenge of containing the record numbers of infections of COVID-31 and the promise not to “close” the city again, despite the high rates of coronavirus infection , recently driven by the Ómicron variant.

With information from EFE