The Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, in a March 8 photo.SETH WENIG / AFP
The mayor of New York, Democrat Bill de Blasio, joined a large chorus of lawmakers from his party in New York State on Thursday to call for the resignation of the governor, Andrew Cuomo, on whom six accusations of harassment hang. formulated in just ten days.
The circle thus closes a little more on the also democrat Cuomo, while the police investigate whether one of the cases involved a crime because there was touching by the politician to an adviser of his, whom he summoned one night to his residence to solve a mobile breakdown.
Shortly after a letter urging Cuomo to resign, signed by more than 55 Democratic legislators from Albany, the state capital and seat of government, was made public, De Blasio said that "Cuomo can no longer serve as governor."
It is the highest political appeal against the governor, who has repeatedly denied the abuses and also that he is going to resign.
But the spread of the sixth case, and the fact that the police have taken action, complicate Cuomo's political future.
Although the last woman - like the other five - has not filed a formal complaint, the Albany police are investigating whether the accusation, made in the local press, "may come to be classified as a crime" due to the existence of an alleged touching .
The New York State Police referred the case to Albany, where the governor's residence is located and where the abuse allegedly took place.
Cuomo's political future is reduced by leaps and bounds.
This weekend, the Democratic leader of the state Senate withdrew his support;
one third of the legislature has requested his resignation or the start of a political impeachment or
impeachment
.
The one who once aspired to become the attorney general of the Joe Biden Administration, the Democratic star who had dazzled the rich and famous - many came to declare
Cuomosexuals
at the height of their fame, during the first wave of the pandemic- , has lived in just two months serious setbacks.
After knowing the dissatisfaction with his management of the public health experts of his Administration, the first setback was the scandal for concealment of data related to the deaths of the elderly in nursing homes by covid-19, a figure made up by his advisers as reported by the newspaper
The New York Times
so as not to tarnish the official speech of the success of his administration.
When the echoes of this case had not died down, investigated by the FBI and the New York justice, the cascade of accusations began - all of them disclosed in the media, without any formal complaint to date - of women who, in their majority they had worked in his government team.
The politician has apologized at least twice for "inappropriate comments", assuring that his behavior could be misinterpreted, but that he never intended to annoy or inconvenience anyone.
Cuomo's attempts to quell criticism of the nursing home death scandal sparked the first public rift of unrest in his party;
accusations of misconduct with women have definitely pilloried him.
The latest media complaint, that of a woman whose identity is unknown, is the most serious of all and refers to events that allegedly occurred at the end of 2020 and in which the governor would have incurred an “aggressive handling” of the victim .
New York Attorney General Letitia James - also a Democrat - appointed the legal team earlier this week to investigate the harassment allegations.
It also collects information on what really happened in the homes for the elderly, and this Thursday it has provided a website to anonymously convey further complaints by women against the governor.
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