2026/5/8 07:12 (updated at 5/8 07:56) Please agree to our privacy policy to enable the news listening function. The primary election for mayor of Los Angeles, the second largest city in the United States, was held on June 2. The picture shows the Los Angeles City Hall. Photographed by Central News Agency reporter Lin Honghan in Los Angeles, May 8, 2015 (Central News Agency reporter Lin Honghan’s special report from Los Angeles on the 7th) One month before the primary election for the mayor of Los Angeles, the current mayor Bass is seeking re-election. Facing the challenge of City Councilman Raman and former reality show celebrity Pratt, the election campaign focuses on issues such as last year’s wildfire response, public security and homeless policies. The primary election for mayor of Los Angeles will be held on June 2. A total of 14 candidates will compete. If no one wins the majority, the top two candidates with the highest number of votes will go to a runoff on November 3. Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States. The mayor is in charge of a municipal budget of 14 billion US dollars and participates in preparations for the 2028 Olympic Games. It is an iconic chief executive election in the United States. The three leading candidates in the polls attended a televised debate on the 6th, and the Pacific Cliff Wildfire (Palisades Fire) in early 2025 became the focus. The fire destroyed thousands of houses and killed 12 people. Mayor Karen Bass was traveling abroad on the day the wildfires broke out and became a target of attacks by her opponents. Opponents criticized the city for mishandling disaster response and budget cuts that left the fire department with insufficient resources, resulting in ineffective fire hydrants and insufficient dispatch of fire trucks and manpower. Challenger Nithya Raman is the 4th District City Councilor. He is an urban planning expert with double degrees from Harvard and MIT, and a progressive with a Democratic Socialist Party (DSA) background. She originally supported Bass for reelection, but announced her candidacy hours before registration closed. Another challenger, Spencer Pratt, is a former reality TV star who frequently criticized Bass on social media for failing to do his job because his home was burned down in the Pacific Bluff wildfire, which became the starting point for his candidacy. Faced with the opponent’s offensive, Bass retorted that the accusations about water resources and fire protection budgets were not correct. The key lies in the manpower dispatch of the fire department that day, not the city government’s budget cuts. According to a March poll by the University of California, Berkeley and the Los Angeles Times, Bass leads with 25% support, followed by Raman with 17%, and Pratt with 14% support. There are still 25% of voters who are undecided, and the rest are supporters of other candidates. (Editor: Chen Chenggong) 1150508 supports the Central News Agency’s choice to stand with the facts. Every donation you make is a small amount of support to protect press freedom. Download the Central News Agency’s “First-hand News” APP to get the latest news in real time. The text, pictures and audio and video of this website may not be reproduced, publicly broadcast or publicly transmitted and used without authorization.
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