The Republican leader has been elected after 15 votes, with 216 votes, two less than the pre-established majority, and thanks to the abstention of six congressmen.
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The Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has been elected this Saturday morning as president of the House of Representatives after having obtained the majority support of the Republicans in the fifteenth ballot.
The California congressman has obtained 216 votestwo less than the majority established in 218, but they have been enough after six congressmen have voted “present” abstaining from casting a vote and thus reducing the total number of votes to reach a majority.
The four days of voting have paralyzed the activity of the House of Representatives and generated a legislative crisis unprecedented in more than 150 years, all this after they have flourished differences between various factions of the Republican Party.
With very little margin for error, McCarthy, who aspired to assert the small Republican majority In the House of Representatives, taking into account the 222 seats that the party obtained in the mid-term elections, it has only been able to win after 15 votes.
Source: Eitb
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