Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy was elected early Saturday morning as Speaker of the House of Representatives after winning majority Republican support on the 15th ballot.
The California congressman has obtained 216 votes, two short of the majority set at 218, but they have been enough after six congressmen voted «present» by abstaining to cast a vote and thus reducing the total number of votes to reach the 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 differences between various factions of the Republican Party have flourished.
With very little margin for error, McCarthy, who aspired to assert the reduced Republican majority in the House of Representatives considering the 222 seats the party won in the mid-term elections, has only been able to win after 15 ballots.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
