new United States Congress, Joe Biden, who emerged from the congressional election last November, was due to take office this Tuesday to begin his next two-year term, which will also be the last of Joe Biden’s first term as president. However, the process, which should have been like a feast, has been postponed for the time being because the new congress members can take their oath in their duties and the House of Representatives cannot elect a new president, which is one of the prerequisites for the TGNA to take office. Sessions of Congress numbered 118 in the country’s history. An internal rebellion within the Republican Party, which opened a majority in the lower house of the US Parliament, prevented the election of the candidate proposed by the vast majority of the conservative formation.
What happened in the vote on Tuesday?
republican deputy Kevin McCarthy wore weeks of negotiation to be with his family this Tuesday’speaker‘The House of Representatives, second most powerful political position United States of America after the presidency. Not only did he lack key rivals, but his candidacy was endorsed by Donald Trump, who continues to exercise his authority. great influence on the party.
The Republican Party has 222 seats in the Lower House, four more than the 218 constituting the majority, the same seats McCarthy needs to become ‘House’ president. But the Republican leader fell short. Not only once, but also three votes lasting more than five hours until the decision to terminate the session, and try again this wednesday. The chaotic spectacle will make its way into the Capitol’s annals for the first time. for a whole century The House of Representatives cannot elect its president on the first day of voting.
Who is behind the republican revolt?
Finally they became one twenty deputies Republicans who voted against his candidacy in all three rounds, nullifying McCarthy’s election. part of that group hard wing of the partya combination of the most right-leaning new lawmakers inspired by Trump’s anti-establishment populism, and others vTrainees during the Tea Party years. Of those who voted against McCarthy, all but two embraced the false voter fraud theory They have denied or denied the legitimacy of Biden as president and the integrity of the electoral system advocated by Trump.
Some supposedly belong Freedom Caucus, the most extreme conservative party-formers and others insurgents MAGA movementmost ideological, inflexible and underestimate institutions.
Why are they against McCarthy?
Experts talk about something combination of factors. Some personalothers just politicians and others processso related power sharing in the lower house and Charter In any case, it is clear that the most extravagant section of the party has been having problems with McCarthy for some time, as before. Eric Cantor and John Boehnerthe last two leaders the party had in parliament, finally overturned at this or that time similar riots from the most ideological and rigid wing of the party.
Their problems are partly due to: The ups and downs of Californian McCarthyDisgusting for the most Trumpist sectors of the party, who came to Washington in the guise of a moderate and pragmatic politician, capable of getting along with their opponents.