Republican Jim Jordan has failed in his bid to lead the United States House of Representatives for the third time. The boycott of his own party colleagues, who do not want a representative of the most radical wing of the party and ally of Donald Trump, has prevented Jordan from assuming this Friday the position of spokesman of the party for which he has been campaigning up to with this new attempt blocked three times.
The Conservatives have a majority in the House of Commons with 221 seats, and Jordan needed 215 votes to win the position of speaker, but 25 MPs from his group ended up voting for other candidates who hadn’t even run yet.
In the three votes, Jordan, Trump’s ally, received 200, 199 and 194 votes, a decreasing number
“We need a speaker as soon as possible so we can advocate for the American people,” Jordan said at a news conference before the vote.
He received 194 votes in Friday’s vote. It reached 200 on Tuesday, the day on which it had the greatest support, and 199 a day later, after twenty Republicans expressed opposition to a representative of the most radical wing of the party, an ally of former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), had rejected), take leadership.
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This means that the lower house has been without a president for more than two weeks, after the previous one, also conservative Kevin McCarthy, was dismissed due to a motion against him filed by the radical Matt Gaetz from his own party, who supports Jordan.
On the Democratic side, the office is sought by the minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, who won the full support of his people in the two previous votes with 212 votes and this Friday won 210 due to two absences.
The lower house remains deadlocked while the budgets for the current financial year have to be approved and US President Joe Biden has just asked Congress to approve an item worth more than 100 billion dollars, including 14.3 billion in aid for Israel includes and a new package for Ukraine for 61,400.
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