California voters vote against impeachment of state governor

Californians voted overwhelmingly to keep their Democratic governor in office, rejecting a Republican attempt to impeach him through a special referendum driven by mandatory masks and closures imposed to combat Covid.

Gavin Newsom easily survived a vote of confidence that would have replaced him with a Republican with minority support in one of the most liberal areas of the United States.

"CNN", "NBC" and "Fox News" said that after counting more than 60% of the votes, it was found that about two-thirds of the voters voted "no" in the referendum.

"The 'No' vote isn't the only thing that was voiced tonight," Newsom said in Sacramento.

He added, "I want to focus on what we said 'yes' to as a state. We said yes to science and we said yes to vaccines. We said yes to put an end to this epidemic."

Immediately after the outbreak of the epidemic in California, Newsom asked people to stay in their homes and ordered the closure of schools, in measures praised by scientists, but some businessmen took him to stifle commercial activities with his measures, while parents complained about their children staying at home.

Behind this referendum lies a major rift across California, between Democratic voters in favor of Biden's progressive program and his anti-Covid-19 measures, and a conservative camp on which he is taking a strict quarantine imposed in the spring of 2020.

Newsom's main competitor was conservative radio host Larry Elder, 69, who has boasted of his support for former President Donald Trump.

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