(National-UAE) In a Turkish-style restaurant in Strasbourg sits a self-described far-left, anti-racist, feminist politician who wants to be France’s equivalent of New York’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.
Cem Yoldas is seeking election in March as mayor of Strasbourg, France’s eighth largest city, but his campaign is one of two covered by media as a Trojan horse for the Muslim Brotherhood.
Polls credit the 29-year-old youth educator with about five per cent of voting intentions, far behind heavyweight socialist politician Catherine Trautmann, 74, who leads in the polls ahead of the outgoing Green mayor.
Interest in Strasbourg has been heightened by the fact that its relatively large Turkish community is influenced by Islamist movement Milli Gorus, which has links to the Muslim Brotherhood.
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