Former US House of Representatives "Speaker" McCarthy resigns from office at the end of the year
On October 3,Kevin McCarthy became the first "Speaker" in US history to be ousted by a rebellion of right-wing hardliners in his own ranks. In the search for a successor, three candidates nominated by the Republicans failed one after the other in the face of internal party trench warfare. The parliamentary crisis ended at the end of October with the election of Mike Johnson as the new chairman.
The departure of the 58-year-old congressman from California further reduces the Republicans ' narrow majority in the House of Representatives: the Republicans now only have a narrow majority of 220 to 213 seats in the 435-seat House of Representatives. It was only on Friday that the House of Representatives voted by a broad cross-party majority to expel Republican scandal-hit New York Congressman George Santos.
With the departure of the two Republicans, early elections will have to be held in California and New York to decide on the allocation of the vacant seats. This gives President Joe Biden's Democrats the chance to win the seats.
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Source: www.stern.de
