London’s elections 2016


The Labour Sadiq Khan will be the next mayor of London. With 99% of the vote counted, mid-afternoon on Friday, the Labour candidate is ahead by nine points to his conservative rival, Zac Goldsmith. Khan will become the first Muslim mayor of a western capital.
Thursday was an important day due to this elections decide something more that which party is in charge of this city, this elections are an important matter about Brexit.
Conservative Boris Johnson could serve Friday rod to the Labour mayor of London Sadiq Khan, ready to become the first Muslim mayor of the British capital. Results will not be official until Friday afternoon, but the latest survey, just hours before the opening of the polls gave 11 points to Khan, maturing in almost all segments of the population (except those over 50 years) and especially in the female vote. The difference between the two candidates, who became 20 points, was cut in recent days following the controversial anti-Semitism that has taken its toll not only to Khan, but all Labour candidates in local elections, the first litmus test of Jeremy Corbyn as opposition leader. The change has created a growing concern among conservatives, including their own David Cameron, that expression in Parliament his "concern" about alleged links in the past the Labour candidate with radical clerics as Sulaiman Gani. Sadiq Khan defended himself by claiming that he has fought extremism all life and that "links" against him dating back to his time with human rights lawyer who also defended several prisoners at Guantanamo. The controversy served to deflect attention during the campaign of the problems that most concern Londoners, and which takes clear advantage Sadiq Khan, son of a bus driver of Pakistani origin born south of the Thames (Tooting) and perceived as more "close" by Londoners Zac Goldsmith, son of billionaire Sir James Goldsmith (founder of the referendum Party).
Khan has promised to undertake a resounding turn homelessness and to prevent foreign investors with accounts "offshore" to speculate on the property market in London. The Labour candidate has also anticipated the price freeze public transport, one of the most expensive in Europe. It has also announced that it will pass the action to the maximum third still is some concern of Londoners: urban pollution (child suffers from asthma).
The mobilization of the Muslim community (12% of the population of London) and the floating population of more than 500,000 Europeans (who could vote in local elections, but may not do so in the EU referendum) also swept please Khan. It is estimated that in any case on Thursday voted only 35% of Londoners, down participation which is already quite common in municipal elections.
The day was marked by chaos at polling stations in north London that prevented voters exercise their right to thousands in Barnet; including Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, one of the leaders of the local Jewish community. Problems with voter registration hurt especially the conservative candidate, in a neighbourhood of upper middle class and large Jewish presence.
The victory in London, whose mayor has held for the past eight years the Conservative Boris Johnson, was crucial for the Labour Party, which exceeded the Super Thursday with a bitter-sweet balance.



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