McCarthy is nominated for a fifth vote for the presidency of the Lower House

the republican congressman kevin mccarthy He was proposed again as a candidate to preside over the Lower House of USAafter having lost four votes, and will be voted in a fifth round in which he does not have guaranteed support either.

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The wayward Republicans, 20 in the last ballot, re-nominated Byron Donalds, congressman from Florida, the same one who faced McCarthy in the fourth round.

Minutes before, the most right-wing wing of the Republican Party had stopped the appointment of McCarthy as president of the House of Representatives, an institution that will remain blocked until a new “speaker” is elected.

Although the former president donald trump (2017-2021) had asked his acolytes to close ranks with McCarthythe Californian politician could not guarantee in the fourth ballot the 218 votes necessary to preside over the Lower House, as happened on Tuesday in the first three.

The rebellious Republicans grouped in the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus ignored the words of Trump, who hours before the plenary session had asked his supporters to close ranks with McCarthy.

“Republicans, do not turn a great victory into a giant and shameful defeat,” said the former president, who trusted that McCarthy can do “a great job” replacing Democrat Nancy Pelosi at the head of the Lower House.

The president of the United States, Joe Biden, also expressed himself in this regard, calling the blockade of the Lower House “shameful” due to divisions between Republicans and warning conservatives that “the rest of the world is watching them.”

On Tuesday, at the opening of the 118th legislature, McCarthy he lost three votes to become speaker of the House of Representatives, despite the fact that his party has a sufficient parliamentary majority to do so, thanks to the results of the midterm elections in November.

The regulation does not contemplate any other alternative to continuing to repeat votes until someone achieves the necessary majority.

The leader of the House of Representatives is the third authority in the country, after the president of the United States, Joe Biden, and the vice president, Kamala Harris, who also presides over the Senate.

Ultra-conservatives criticize McCarthy not having negotiated with them a reform of the debate regulations or the names to lead the congressional committees in the new legislature.

McCarthyuntil now leader of the Republican opposition, has attacked the comrades who think more about “positions for themselves than in the country.”

Source: Elcomercio

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