The Profound House Speakership Problem In The US Republican Party, Cast In Nigeria’s G-5 PDP Challenge In Nigeria
The Oasis Reporters
January 7, 2023
While the problem of internal political division and dissent lingered in Nigeria’s PDP, some of the extremists in the party proffered solutions that pandered between expulsion of the members of the G-5 group to some even worse views.
Until they saw the wisdom in letting grudging tolerance exist, because they saw much later, a victorious Republican Party in the United States of America, equally on a lockdown. The party struggled for 4 days without finding a solution to it’s mathematics that simply refused to add up.
The U.S. House of Representatives elected GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of California as speaker in a dramatic 15th vote early Saturday, after a contentious four days and 14 failed ballots — the longest the chamber has gone leaderless in a century.
In a tense showdown on the House floor in the middle of the 14th failed vote at around 11 p.m. ET Friday, McCarthy personally confronted GOP Reps. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Lauren Boebert of Colorado.
Despite making numerous concessions to win support from them and other far right Republicans over the course of the week, they still refused to support McCarthy outright. They, instead, joined four other Republicans in the 15th and final vote by voting “present,” which helped him clinch the gavel by reducing the number of votes he needed to get to a majority. He won with 216 out of 428 possible votes.
Newly elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives Kevin McCarthy celebrates after being annointed on the 15th round of voting at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 7, 2023. – Kevin McCarthy was named as the new speaker of the US House of Representatives on Saturday, ending days of bitter Republican infighting that ground the lower chamber of Congress to a standstill. The 57-year-old Californian needed a simple majority to be elected as Washington’s top legislator, who presides over House business and is second in line to the presidency.
He’s a 57-year-old Californian who needed a simple majority to be elected as Washington’s top legislator, who presides over House business and is second in line to the presidency.
US President Biden has offered his congratulatory message.
Additional reporting from Bloomberg, CNBC
