WELLINGTON, (Xinhua) - New Zealand Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway was expelled from office on Wednesday after his inappropriate relationship with a staff member was warned by an outsider.
PM Jacinda Ardern told a public interview that she excused Lees-Galloway as a priest.
Ardern said her office got an email from an outsider asserting that Lees-Galloway had a wrong relationship with a previous staff member who worked in one of his organizations.
Confronting these claims, Lees-Galloway affirmed that a consensual relationship had happened, that it included somebody who had recently worked in his office and had been situated in one of his organizations, as per Ardern.
"It turned out to be obvious to me that his situation as a Minister was unsound," she stated, including the clergyman "has demonstrated an absence of judgment over a time of a year."
Remains Galloway assumed full liability for his activities and chose not to remain in the following political decision, she said.
"I have acted totally improperly in my position and can't proceed as a priest," Lees-Galloway said in an announcement.
He will likewise step down as a MP at the political decision.
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