For the first time in the history of the Netherlands became the mayor of the immigrant.

For the first time in the history of the Netherlands, the mayor of the city has become an immigrant, said in Monday, January 5, France Presse.
Abutaleb Ahmed (Ahmed Aboutaleb), a native of Morocco, on Monday took the oath and officially assumed office as mayor of Rotterdam. AFP notes that the second largest Dutch city a few years ago there were very strong anti-immigrant sentiment.
Abutaleb was born in Morocco in 1961 at the age of 14 he moved to the Netherlands. He worked as a journalist, then in the city council of Amsterdam. Later he took up the post of Secretary to the Government of Social Affairs. He is a member of the Workers' Party of the Netherlands.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony Abutaleb said: "Christian churches are disappearing, and a mosque, on the contrary, there is. People are worried, they feel fear and uncertainty. To these problems must take to the high-profile attention."
Observers note that Abutaleb enjoyed great popularity among the Muslim population of the Netherlands.