The democrat Nancy Pelosi overcame this Wednesday the first test to become the president of the House of Representatives, although still not be guaranteed your appointment. The congressman from california, 78 years old, is a veteran of american politics and a figure polarising, but knows how to navigate perfectly the waters of Washington and has so far failed to overcome the attempt of rebellion from the wing than left-wing of the Democratic Party.
The main progressive appointed to Pelosi, as its candidate to lead the House of Representatives, with 203 votes in favour and 32 against. The final vote will be held on the 3rd of January all over the floor, when it will start officially the new legislature. Pelosi does not have secured his confirmation. After his victory in the legislative elections of November 6, the democrats will control at least 233 of the 435 seats in the House. If all the republicans vote against it, Pelosi needs to achieve 218 democratic votes, that is to say 15 more this Wednesday, so you will need to build bridges with opponents within his party.
Pelosi was already speaker of the House of Representatives between 2007 and 2011, when she became the first woman to occupy the position, equivalent to the third political authority of the united STATES. Now aspires to regain the Betboo throne at a key moment. With the control of the Camera, the democrats will have the ability to block the legislative agenda of Donald Trump in their last two years of mandate and using the powers of the legislative committees to launch investigations against his Administration. The republicans have maintained their majority in the Senate, so that will need to be agreements bipartite, so that a law advance in both held.
Aware of its pitfalls, Pelosi has worked hard since the election victory in seducing the batch of new democrats in congress who won the elections with a speech regenerator and contrary to the establishment. Now, however, a number of them have decided to support the candidacy of the congressman from California. For example, Rashida Tlaib, who won in a district in Michigan and is one of the first two muslim women to enter the Congress, suggested in recent days that he would support Pelosi. As a candidate, hinted that it would do the opposite, but now it will do it in exchange for concessions, for example to give more power to the congressmen newbies.
In a meeting with a sesentena of new democrats in congress, Pelosi promised to hold meetings bi-monthly with them and listen to their requests. But they also called for unity and drew boundaries. “Do your fighting, make your case, but not every fight is the last fight,” he said, according to leaks of the meeting behind closed doors.
it Is a delicate balance to Pelosi: appease the left wing of the party but also to those who managed to win in districts historically republican with a speech moderate and pragmatic while they all Trump their common enemy.
