MADRID, 1 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The US congressman George Santos has announced this Tuesday that he will temporarily refrain from being part of the congressional committees amid pressure within the Republican Party that asks him to resign, all this after the legislator admitted that he had lied about aspects key to your resume.
The Republican elected by New York has transferred the decision to his party mates, alleging that his participation in these committees “is a distraction”, at least while he is investigated by the Ethics Committee of the Lower House for masking his biography, according to The newspaper ‘The New York Times’ has reported.
Days before, the president of the United States House of Representatives, Republican Kevin McCarthy, met with Santos, who conveyed the idea that leaving the committees was “an appropriate decision until everything could be clarified.”
In that meeting, Santos and McCarthy discussed various scenarios, according to people familiar with the conversation consulted by ‘The Washington Post’. Specifically, the New York congressman would have asked if his positions on the committee could be kept in reserve until the open investigation against him was concluded.
The speaker of the House of Representatives reportedly expressed his support for the idea and told the New York congressman that he appreciated it.
Santos has admitted to having fabricated details about his education, work, religion and heritage since his election as a congressman in the last mid-term legislative elections held on November 8.
More specifically, the congressman has exaggerated or outright lied about his professional and personal resume, with a false Jewish heritage linked to the Holocaust and a mother who had supposedly died in the attacks of September 11, 2001, among other lies that have come out the light.
After that, a multitude of voices within the Republican Party have called for the resignation of Santos, appealing that he has met “the highest levels of honesty and reliability” or that “it is not right to invent or lie for political interests,” according to in mid-January the Cleveland portal.
Still, the announcement comes on the same day that a Newsday-Siena College poll conducted in his district has shown that the vast majority of voters think Santos should resign.