New Zealand 大臣 解雇する/砲火/射撃d for 妥当でない 事件/事情/状勢 with スタッフの一員

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - New Zealand 総理大臣 Jacinda Ardern said Wednesday she has 解雇する/砲火/射撃d her 移民/移住 大臣 for having an 不適切な 関係 with a subordinate.

Ardern said Iain 物陰/風下s-Galloway had a consensual 事件/事情/状勢 for about a year with a woman who had worked as a staff member in his office and also at one of the 機関s he oversaw.

Ardern, who leads the 自由主義の 労働 Party, said she was 用心深い about passing moral judgment but the 大臣 had opened himself up to 告訴,告発s of improperly using the 力/強力にする of his 役割, 特に since he had oversight of workplace relations and safety.

物陰/風下s-Galloway, 41, said he 受託するd Ardern's 決定/判定勝ち(する) and わびるd. He said he wouldn't 捜し出す reelection at the 近づいている 総選挙, which is 存在 held in September.

"I have 行為/法令/行動するd 完全に inappropriately in my position and can not continue as a 大臣," 物陰/風下s-Galloway said in a 声明.

The 開発 was the 最新の in a 一連の スキャンダルs from both 味方するs of the aisle in the New Zealand 議会 which have 量d to a reckoning of sorts.

Iain Lees-Galloway addresses a press conference at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on July 6, 2020. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Wednesday, July 22, 2020 she has fired her immigration minister, Lees-Galloway, for having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

Iain 物陰/風下s-Galloway 演説(する)/住所s a 圧力(をかける) 会議/協議会 at 議会 in Wellington, New Zealand, on July 6, 2020. New Zealand 総理大臣 Jacinda Ardern said Wednesday, July 22, 2020 she has 解雇する/砲火/射撃d her 移民/移住 大臣, 物陰/風下s-Galloway, for having an 不適切な 関係 with a subordinate. (示す Mitchell/New Zealand 先触れ(する) 経由で AP)

Just a day earlier, 対立 国会議員 Andrew Falloon 突然の 辞職するd after 恐らく sending sexually explicit images to several women, 含むing a university student.

Falloon hasn't commented on the 主張s, other than to say he わびるd for making 明示していない mistakes, and had been getting mental health counselling.

In both 事例/患者s, the 主張s were first sent to the leaders of the …に反対するing 政党s, 示唆するing there may have been an element of politics at play. But the 開発s also 示唆するd that 行為 which may have 以前 been 受託するd or kept 静かな in the New Zealand 議会 would no longer be 許容するd.

Ardern said she learned about the 主張s on Tuesday afternoon and questioned 物陰/風下s-Galloway about them in the evening. She said he'd shown a 重要な 欠如(する) of judgment over the course of a year.

"His 活動/戦闘s have 最終的に led me to lose 信用/信任 in him as a 大臣," Ardern said.

Ardern said that as she understood it, the 関係 had ended several months ago.

She said the 議会 had long had a culture and an 環境 that needed 改善するing. But she stopped short of 説 the 非難する lay with male 国会議員s.

"We all have a 役割 to make sure that we 持続する 基準s in this 環境," Ardern said. "I'm not going to start casting judgments on 明確な/細部 genders here."

対立 Leader Judith Collins said she wrote to Ardern on Wednesday 説 the culture of 議会 needed to change and the two of them should work out how to 達成する that.

"議会 and these 管区s are not always a 安全な working place. And it's not 承認する," Collins said. "And I believe she and I have an 適切な時期 to 直す/買収する,八百長をする it."

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern arrives for a post-Cabinet press conference with Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, on July 6, 2020. Ardern said Wednesday, July 22, 2020 she has fired Lees-Galloway for having an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)

New Zealand 総理大臣 Jacinda Ardern arrives for a 地位,任命する-閣僚 圧力(をかける) 会議/協議会 with 移民/移住 大臣 Iain 物陰/風下s-Galloway at 議会 in Wellington, New Zealand, on July 6, 2020. Ardern said Wednesday, July 22, 2020 she has 解雇する/砲火/射撃d 物陰/風下s-Galloway f or having an 不適切な 関係 with a subordinate. (示す Mitchell/New Zealand 先触れ(する) 経由で AP)

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