2023-10-20 19:41:22
The Republicans on Friday disavowed an ally of Donald Trump, Jim Jordan, who is no longer the party’s designated candidate for the presidency of the United States House of Representatives, further plunging this parliamentary institution into crisis.
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Republican elected officials withdrew their support for Mr. Jordan in a secret ballot and announced that they would meet on Monday to nominate a new candidate for the post of “speaker”.
“We need to come together and determine who our leader will be,” Jim Jordan said after the vote. This member of the most conservative fringe of the party and close to Trump has confirmed that he will not run again.
A few hours before, 25 Republicans voted against the elected representative from Ohio, who suffered his third failure in four days to be elected to the perch. The position has been vacant since the historic impeachment of Kevin McCarthy on October 3, following divisions between moderate Republicans and Trumpists.
For almost three weeks, the lower house of the American Congress, supposed to be one of the most powerful parliaments in the world, has not been able to vote on any bill.
And this at a time when American President Joe Biden has just asked Congress for a huge budget increase of more than $105 billion to help allies Israel and Ukraine, stand up to China and respond to the arrival of migrants at the border. south of the country.
“We are in a very bad situation,” admitted Kevin McCarthy.
«Situation grave»
On Thursday, parliamentarians asked Jim Jordan to give up. And some Republican elected officials had assured that they would not vote for him, even if he persisted in running.
“It has become clear that elected Jordan does not have and will not obtain the votes necessary to be a speaker,” Tom Kean, elected Republican from New Jersey, said in a press release.
It is in this context of blockage in the House and political chaos that Joe Biden requested on Friday a budgetary increase of 105 billion dollars in particular to support Ukraine and Israel, allies of the United States involved in major international crises, and respond to the challenges posed by immigration at the country’s southern border.
“We need to unblock the House. I expect the Senate to begin work as soon as possible on President Biden’s national security package,” Hakeem Jeffries, the leader of the Democratic Caucus in the House of Representatives, told reporters.
“If the House is not unblocked, it will bog down needlessly and lives will be put in danger. “It’s a serious situation,” he insisted.
To get out of the crisis, Mr. Jeffries called for finding a “speaker” who results from a choice coming from both political sides.
According to him, Jim Jordan was a “danger to democracy”. “There are still reasonable Republicans on the other side of the House, men and women who want the House to return to service,” he assured.
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