Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the US House after 15 votes with a finale worthy of the psychodrama that has taken place in these five days in the temple of American democracy and with Donald Trump, who seemed to have lost his grip on the Grand old party, which is returned protagonist playing a decisive role in the victory of the republican.
A surprise success. This is the longest vote in the history of the American House : it was since 1923 that a speaker was not elected on the first day and since 1859, since before the Civil War that there have not been so many votes.
There was also a tough exchange bordering on physical confrontation between McCarthy and a dissident Republican Matt Gaentz.
In the end, therefore, Trump's candidate passed, who however had to make several concessions to the GOP rebels, inevitably weakening his role .
Joe Biden congratulated Kevin McCarthy, stating that «as I said after the midterm elections, I am ready to work with Republicans whenever possible , and voters, as they clearly stated, expect Republicans to be ready to work with me.
The new speaker began his first speech with a joke about the 15 votes needed to elect him: «It was easy, huh? I didn't think we'd ever get up here."
Then he said that the Chamber will work to make the US win the economic competition with the "Chinese Communist Party" . "We will create a bipartisan commission to figure out how to bring the hundreds of thousands of jobs that have ended up in China back here," he added.
(Unioneonline/L)
