Nearly 20 Republicans did not vote for their own nominee, first time in a century
Members of the House of Representatives today failed to elect their new speaker in the first round, after nearly 20 Republicans did not vote for their own candidate, Kevin McCarthy, for the first time in a century.
The front-runner to succeed Nancy Pelosi has been unable to win over Trump’s lawmakers who don’t see him as “conservative enough,” a sign of divisions within the opposition.
Deputies will continue voting until the new president of the House is elected.
A majority of 218 votes is required to elect the speaker of the House, the third in the hierarchy of the American political system after the president and vice president of the USA. In the first round, McCarthy received only 203 votes, after 19 Trumpists did not support him. “Kevin doesn’t believe in anything, he doesn’t have an ideology,” Matt Getz of Florida said of his party’s candidate.
Republicans, after winning control of the House after November’s midterm elections, have vowed to use their power to launch a series of investigations into President Joe Biden, for example, over his handling of the pandemic. But in order to do this they will first have to agree among themselves and elect the president of the Parliament.
The election of the president of the House of Representatives can be a matter of a few hours or even a few… weeks: in 1856 the deputies finally managed to agree after two months and 133 consecutive votes.
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