The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, on January 20 at the Capitol. ROD LAMKEY (AFP)
The president of the House of Representatives and leader of the Democrats in Washington, Nancy Pelosi, announced on Tuesday that she plans to stand for re-election in the legislative elections on November 8. Pelosi, 81, has not specified whether she intends to also maintain the position as head of the party and highest authority in Congress, although months ago she had indicated that this would be her last term as such. A member of the House since 1987, representing the State of California, Pelosi is a heavyweight of the Democratic Party, the only woman in history who has been a speaker and, moreover, she has done so twice (between 2007 and 2011 and from 2019 to now).
In this Tuesday's announcement, he has referred to the "crucial" of the contest that is coming at the polls.
It is more than a commonplace: the Democrats are risking their fragile control of the House and the Senate, which will mark the remainder of the Joe Biden administration and the pending ambitious social agenda, and the political battle for voting laws heighten tension and uncertainty.
“Although we have made progress, much more needs to be done to improve people's lives.
Our democracy is at risk due to attacks on the truth, the assault on the Capitol and the right to vote State by State.
These elections are crucial," Pelosi said in the video posted on her Twitter account.
"We," he continued, "we did not agonize, we organized ourselves, and that is why I am running for re-election."
In addition to being the speaker of the House of Representatives, which makes her the third authority in the United States, Pelosi has been the leader of the Democrats on Capitol Hill for 19 years, both in the opposition (during the Administrations of George W. Bush and Donald Trump ) and when he has had a member of the party (Barack Obama and Joe Biden) in the White House.
During these years she was in charge of achieving the unity of progressives and moderates to carry out laws such as Obama's health reform.
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