A senator submitted his resignation from the opposition party of the Liberals to Australia because of the accusations he faces of sexual misconduct with female politicians.
The allegations against Liberal senator David Vann follow a 2021 investigation into the work culture in Australia’s parliament, which found that one in three workers there had experienced sexual harassment.
Van, where denies the chargessaid in a message to the president of the Victoria branch of the Liberals that he would immediately resign as a member of the party.
Vann will remain in parliament as an independent senatorsaid a representative of the senator.
Liberal leader Peter Dutton last Friday called on Vann to resign after independent senator Lydia Thorpemaking use of parliamentary privilege, stated that he had been sexually assaulted during the previous parliamentary terma charge Van immediately denied.
After Thorpe’s statements, former Liberal senator Amanda Stoker said Vann touched her inappropriately at a party in 2020 by squeezing her bottom twice.
A third allegation against Van also surfaced, Dutton told reporters Friday, without elaborating.
Van said this week that he is “completely broken” and “shocked that my good reputation can be so savagely devoured.”
The episode comes after the previous Liberal-led government of prime minister Scott Morrison was rocked by the case of a former government adviser who was accused of sexually assaulting a colleague in the parliament building in 2019.
Source: News Beast
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