More Democrats support Andrew Cuomo’s resignation over sexual harassment allegations: New York Senate leader concludes

Andrea Stewart-Cousins, leader of the Democratic majority in the New York Senate, trusted the governor’s resignation with his party partner Andrew Cuomo, in response to the accusations of harassment by various women and the doubts about the management of the pandemic in geriatricians.

‘For the good of the state, the governor Cuomo must resign“, Dijo Stewart-Cousins ​​in a communiqué issued shortly after the politician wanted to make it clear at a press conference that he did not plan to resign.

The leadership of the majority of the state senate defended the repeated accusations against Cuomo without the governing permission as it was debited, unless at any moment as complicated as the actual one, in full pandemic.

‘Tenemos accusations of sexual harassment, of a toxic laboratory venture, the loss of credibility in torn to the dates on the COVID-19 in geriatric and dudas on the construction of a large infrastructure project”, Signal Stewart-Cousins.

Last week, the Democratic legislature said that Cuomo should be punished in the event that the denunciations of women were continued due to superstitious episodes or inappropriate conduct, even if this was the end of the week, with new testimonies, which will be published.

Pese to the new accusations, Cuomo insists he is domino in that he has not thought of taking the cargo and attacking the voices that he possessed, while he figured some figures of his own property. “I do not want to diminish allegations”, Cuomo said at a press conference, saying that he would like to work with the state fiscal general, Letitia James, who has conducted an official investigation into the first public hearings.

The governor, in addition, responded to those who had applied for his resignation, suggesting that he did so for “political” reasons and defended that he renounced an anti-democratic series. “I was elected by the people of the state. I was not elected by politicians, ”Cuomo said.

Mientras, the leader of the Democratic majority in the State Assembly, the former Democrat Carl Heastie, assured another communiqué that the allegations against Cuomo were “profoundly preoccupied” and had doubts about his ability to govern, although not directly.

“Share the sentiment of the leader of Senate Stewart-Cousins ​​about the governor’s ability to succeed in leading this state. We have many challenges for delinquency and creed that at the moment the governor can consider whether he can respond effectively to the needs of the newcomers, ”said Heastie.

Cuomo goberna New York since 2011 and his figure is very popular in all United States at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic by its press releases informing about the progress of the disease in the state, one of the most affected areas by the COVID-19. This popularity generates some expectation that eventually the politician of 63 years will opt for the White House in the future.

The pres- sure of the governor has disappeared in the last days, so much so about the accusations as well as the information that his team was informed about the impact of the COVID-19 on geriatric patients to prevent high mortality in these centers.

In March 2020, Cuomo will impose a standard -revocated in May- that impedes to the nursing centers return to positive patients by the COVID-19 if institutes to avoid, as an indication that they are saturating the hospitals, which is vuelta has these installations and residents potentially infected with the virus.

(With EFE information)

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