A senator from the ruling Australian Labor Party, Fatima Bayman, announced her resignation from the party after indefinitely suspending her membership in the party's parliamentary bloc, following her support for the Green Party's proposal to recognize the State of Palestine.
This came in a statement made by Byman, a representative from the state of Western Australia, on Thursday, regarding her party, according to ABC News.
Byman announced her resignation from the Labor Party and will continue her duties independently.
She stressed that she still believes in the principles of the Labor Party, "but I do not see a compromise that would enable me to remain in the party."
She said: "I am under pressure to comply with the party's decisions, and my conscience leaves me no other choice."
She noted that on the day she supported the Green Party's proposal to the Senate to recognize the state of Palestine, "Labour members did not want to sit next to her."
Byman took office in 2022, becoming the first veiled woman in the Senate in Australia.
She was the only one of the Labor Party's senators to support the Green Party's proposal.
On June 30, the Australian Labor Party announced that Byman's right to attend parliamentary bloc meetings had been suspended indefinitely by the Australian Prime Minister and Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese.
The Australian Parliament rejected the proposal presented by the Green Party in Australia to recognize the state of Palestine on June 25.
Recently, Armenia, Spain, Norway, Ireland, and Slovenia officially announced their recognition of the State of Palestine, in the wake of the devastating Israeli war on the Gaza Strip that has been continuing since last October, and the escalation of Israeli restrictions on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
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An Australian parliamentarian resigns from her party after her membership was suspended for supporting Palestine