This blog features a hyper link to the Spain's national daily newspaper's on-line English version. If you click on the hypertext today, Sept 10, 2014, you will find an article on Madrid's mayor, Ana Botella, who has "succumbed" to public pressure and decided to step down from her post. Here is the article on this politician.
The featured verb, succumb, is commonly used in English journalism when a politician makes this sort of decision.
Merriam Webster defines succumb as
intransitive verb \sə-ˈkəm\
: to stop trying to resist something
: to die
: to die
Full Definition of SUCCUMB
1: to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire <succumb to temptation>
2: to be brought to an end (as death) by the effect of destructive or disruptive forces
Wordreference offers this translation into Spanish
succumb = sucumbir, ceder (= YIELD), fenecer
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