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Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 23
Mamdani, Sánchez Forge Left-Wing Ties at U.N. Week Breakfast in Manhattan
Updated
Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 23

Mamdani, Sánchez Forge Left-Wing Ties at U.N. Week Breakfast in Manhattan

3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Sep 23

Summary

  • Zohran Mamdani and Pedro Sánchez are set to meet over breakfast in Manhattan on Wednesday and deliver remarks as leaders gather for the U.N. General Assembly.
  • The meeting is aimed at building cross-border left-wing cooperation as Democrats and allied leaders look for ways to counter a far-right surge and broader right-wing populism.
  • Sánchez, Spain’s prime minister, and Mamdani, New York’s mayor, are emerging as prominent elected faces of the left, giving the event symbolic weight beyond a routine U.N. week appearance.
  • The outreach reflects a wider effort by some Democrats to seek like-minded partners abroad as ideological battles increasingly spill across national borders.

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