Republicans secure the votes to elect the new US Supreme Justice before the presidential elections

The leader of the United States Republicans in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said on Monday that the upper house will vote on the appointment of the new Supreme Court judge proposed by President Donald Trump "this year", despite the controversy that it is to occupy such lifetime office in full elections.

The death of progressive judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg last Friday has opened a new battle in this race for the White House.

Instead of waiting for the president chosen at the polls on November 3 to propose a name, as demanded by the Democratic opposition and defended until now by the Republicans, Trump is trying to tie up his conservative candidate - advance who will be a woman -, who will announce Saturday.

This Tuesday, the doubts about possible Republicans who could dissociate themselves from the Administration's position have ended, accelerating the options in favor of Trump making the appointment.

To move forward with the elected, Republicans only need to convince their own, since they control 53 of the 100 Senate seats and only need 51 votes.

Senators Susan Collins of Maine;

and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska have spoken out against the majority position of their party, but other Republican names that were doubted have cleared the unknowns on Monday.

Charles E. Grassley of Iowa;

and Cory Gardner of Colorado have stated that they will vote for any nominee who is "qualified."

Mitt Romney of Utah, known for his opposition to Trump, who voted in favor of

(although he did so knowing that it had no real effect), was then the only question.

The senator said Tuesday that he will follow the Constitution, which means that he supports filling the vacancy before the elections.

"If the candidate reaches the Senate, I intend to vote according to her qualifications," she said.

With this declaration, she paves the way for the vote in Congress.

"The Senate will vote this nomination this year," stressed McConnell from the upper house on Monday.

"The Senate has plenty of time for this process," he insisted.

Although one third of the Senate is renewed on November 3, the new representatives will not take possession of their seat until January 3.

For his part, Trump confirmed that he hopes to make the election public on Saturday, once the tributes and funeral services for the legendary judge Ginsburg, a key figure in the fight for US civil rights, especially equality between men and women, are concluded. , of enormous popularity.

She was one of the few magistrates of the Supreme Court, made up of six men and three women, and the Republican president has promised not to reduce that proportion further by proposing another judge.

Donald Trump, during a rally in Ohio.

On video, the US president says he is looking for five women to fill the vacant post on the Supreme Court.

PHOTO: AFP / VIDEO: REUTERS

On Monday he said he is shuffling a list of five names.

According to

, the best placed is Amy Coney Barrett, a 48-year-old conservative;

although the Cuban-American Bárbara Lagoa, 52;

Allison Jones Rushing, 38;

and a White House attorney, Kate Todd.

There is another proportion at stake.

Now, five of the members of the high court are considered conservatives, nominated by Republican presidents, compared to four progressives (including the recently deceased Ginsburg).

If the surrogate is conservative, the scales will tip even more.

Trump was confident that the senators of his party will close ranks and confirm the new judge, even if it is a contradiction to what they defended in 2016, when a conservative judge, Antonin Scalia, died in the middle of the election year under the presidency of Barack Obama and the appointment was prevented until the new administration took office.

"It would be very bad for them, the voters who have chosen them have done so because of a certain ideology or sensitivity and they do not want them to do that [block the appointment]."