The New York city council is no longer able to “effectively rule” with Adams as mayor, said Adrienne Adams, who is not related to Eric Adams, on Monday. With the resignation of his four deputies, “it became clear that Mayor Adams lost the trust of his own employees, his colleagues in the government and the New York citizen”.
Adams must now “give priority to the city of New York and its residents, to assume and step down,” said the city council chairman. At the same time, she warned of a “chaos” in the metropolis. The resignation of four Vice Citizens’ Masters is “the result of the mayor’s actions and decisions, which led to months of instability and now endanger the sovereignty of the city”.
In one of the “New York Times” there was an internal email to their employees, two of the four resigned vice mayors declared on Monday that they had made “the difficult decision” to withdraw from their offices. They justified the step with the “extraordinary events of the past few weeks and to remain true to the oaths that we swore to the New Yorkers and our families”.
The New York city council, dominated by the left wing, particularly accuses his approach to the government of US President Trump in migration policy. The Democrat had approached the Republican in the past few months, both described a corruption procedure against Adams as politically. On Thursday, Adams then announced increased cooperation with the new US government in its stricter migration policy.
After the increasing pressure of the Trump government on the judiciary in New York, the demands for the resignation of Adams had recently become louder. However, he himself has decidedly excludes one, and he also emphasizes the allegations of corruption against him.
On Monday, Adams reacted to the resignations of his deputies with the words that he was “disappointed to see them”. However, he understands “your decision in view of the current challenges”.
In particular, the arrangement of the Ministry of Justice to drop a corruption against Adams had encountered massive resistance in New York. In the course of this, at least seven judicial staff resigned in New York and Washington last week. They accuse the US government targeted “influence on the public prosecutor” from political interests.
The Ministry of Justice, on the other hand, argues that its core task is “the persecution of dangerous criminal and not politically motivated witch hunts”.
The order to drop the lawsuit against Adams had come from the incumbent Vice-Justice Minister Emil Bove, a former lawyer of Trump. The law enforcement is “excessively restricted in his possibilities to fully devote himself to the procedure against illegal immigration and violent crime,” said Bove.
Against the background of the overwhelming events, the Governor of the New York state, Hochul, did not exclude Adams – this would be a novelty in the history of the state. In a statement on Monday evening, Hochul announced that she would be called up on Tuesday.
The collective resignation of the high -ranking administrative staff raises “serious questions about the long -term future of this city administration”, explained Hochul. In the 235-year history of the state of New York, the powers of the governor to break down a democratically elected mayor had been “never used”. However, the allegations made against the town hall are “worrying” and could “not be ignored”.
