By Ben Turner, AFP
Zohran Mamdani promised Thursday to show left-wing politics can succeed as he took over as New York mayor for a term sure to see him cross swords with US President Donald Trump.
Thousands of people gathered in freezing conditions in the United States' largest city to celebrate the 34-year-old Democrat's inauguration after his impressive political rise from relative anonymity just a year ago.
"They want to know if the left can govern. They want to know if the struggles that afflict them can be solved," Mamdani said outside City Hall.
"We will do something that New Yorkers do b
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