Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has failed for the fifth time in his bid to become the new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives in a fourth vote blocked by a group of Republicans who have refused to support him.
The Republican candidate has garnered 201 votes in the fifth ballot, exactly the same support as in the fourth round held hours earlier. As in the previous count, 20 Republicans voted for Republican candidate Byron Donald, while Democratic candidate Hakeem Jeffries garnered 212 votes.
In the fourth and fifth votes, the Republican representative Victoria Spartz abstained while the uneasiness against McCarthy grows, since many congressmen consider that he should step aside to unblock the situation, as reported by CNN.
With very little margin for error, McCarthy, who aspired to assert the reduced Republican majority in the House of Representatives taking into account the 222 seats that the party obtained in the mid-term elections, has already failed in three previous rounds due to the discomfort of a more radical sector agglutinated in the Freedom Caucus.
This is evidence of the marked differences between the various factions of the Republican party, which will surely end up in similar situations when it has to negotiate with the Senate, which is in the hands of the Democrats.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
