#political-resignation

#political-resignation

The first time Donald Trump took the oath of office, I felt an overwhelming sense of doom. My whole body somehow felt both impossibly heavy and utterly empty at the same time, like it couldn't decide whether it'd be safer to sink into the ground or float away into the clouds. I'll forever remember when Sean Spicer - Trump's first in what became a revolving door of White House press secretaries - stormed up to the podium, red-faced and fuming,

Carlos Mazon, the embattled president of the eastern Spanish region of Valencia, has bowed to public fury and political pressure by resigning over his botched handling of the deadly floods that killed 229 people in the area just over a year ago. Mazon, a member of the conservative People's party (PP), had hung on despite calls for him to stand down after it emerged that he spent more than three hours having lunch with a journalist as the floods hit and people were drowning in their homes, garages and cars.

"I made an extremely inappropriate remark at a time when citizens are suffering from soaring rice prices," Eto told reporters after submitting his resignation at the prime minister's office.