Nancy Pelosi, the highest-ranking Democrat in Washington, was re-elected this Sunday as speaker of the House of Representatives, after a vote in which she received the support of 216 legislators of the 435 that make up the Lower House.
After a voting session held on the day of inauguration of the new United States Congress (number 117), Pelosi, 80, won the position that was contested with Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy, leader of the minority in the Lower House, and who obtained 209 votes.
Pelosi was relegated to the Lower House as a representative for California.
She
already presided over this body between 2007 and 2011, and then again as of 2019.
However, in this Sunday's vote she obtained tighter support than on previous occasions.
And it is that in the last elections the Democrats lost 10 seats and were left with 222 in the Lower House.
For their part, the Republicans seized new 15 seats and finished with 211.
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While the president-elect, Joe Biden, takes office on January 20, it is still to be determined how the balance of forces will be in the Senate: this Tuesday there will be two key races to establish whether the majority will remain in Republican hands , as up to now since.
or if the Democrats will get it.
These results may determine the course of the next administration, as the Senate must reject or approve much of the White House's decisions, from new laws to the incoming president's cabinet appointments.
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