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The House of Representatives of USA will try this Wednesday to elect its president for the sixth time since the 118th legislature began yesterday and after five failed attempts by the Republican kevin mccarthy to take charge.
The candidates in this sixth round of voting are the same as in the previous two held today: McCarthythe democrat Hakeem Jeffries and he is also a republican Byron Donalds.
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McCarthyfavorite to succeed Democrat Nancy Pelosi after the narrow victory of conservatives in the November midterm elections for the House of Representatives, He has run into opposition from a group of 20 far-right congressmen who are preventing him from reaching the 218 votes he needs.
The wayward, grouped under the so-called Freedom Caucus, supported Donalds in three successive votes on Wednesday.
The ultra-conservatives criticize McCarthy for not having negotiated with them a reform of the debate rules or the names to lead the congressional committees in the new legislature.
On Tuesday, at the opening of the 118th legislature, McCarthy he lost three votes to become president of the House of Representativesdespite the fact that his party has a sufficient parliamentary majority to do so, thanks to the results of the mid-term 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 USAJoe Biden, and the vice president, Kamala Harris, who also presides over the Senate.
Source: Elcomercio
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