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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The majority of the Democrats in the US House of Representatives in the mid-term elections Tuesday said they will have to appoint the new president and solve the puzzle. by Nancy Pelosi.
The current 78-year-old Democrat Speaker in the House will play a pivotal role over the next few weeks and does not hide her intention to return to her 2007 "roost" seat. to 2011, becoming the first woman elected to this position.
Republican's favorite target in Congress, Nancy Pelosi is not unanimous in her own camp since about 60 Democrats have openly called for a change of direction during the campaign "midterms".
For the Democratic Party, it will be necessary to settle this debate to make this position – the second in the order of succession in case of vacancy of power after that of Vice President of the United States – a springboard rather than a ball in view of the 2020 presidential election.
The future Speaker of the House of Representatives will be in the spotlight over the next two years that should see elected Democrats multiply investigations and procedures against Donald Trump.
And the strategy that will be adopted by the Democrats, between naked possible conflicts of interest of the former real estate mogul or possible obstructions to justice in the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the temptation to "overdo it", by multiplying parliamentary obstructions or by launching an "impeachment" procedure, will be closely scrutinized.
DEMOCRATS IN QUEST FOR "NEW BLOOD"
Congratulated by the Republican President after the victory of his party, Nancy Pelosi badured Tuesday night that the House "would work to find solutions that bring us together because we all have enough divisions."
The leader of the Democratic representatives for 16 years was flanked for the occasion by the number two and three Democrats in the House, Steny Hoyer and James Clyburn, a triumvirate who could aspire to remain in office when the new Congress begins to sit next January. .
Nancy Pelosi will first have to convince her own party that she is best able to lead the fight against Donald Trump and the Republicans in an in-camera vote to be held on November 28.
Two years ago, she won 134 votes against 63 to Ohio representative Tim Ryan. He hinted Tuesday night that he could try again.
"It's not going to be a coronation (for Pelosi), somebody else will claim the presidency, the Americans want change, I think the Democrats want change, so we're going to have a discussion on it as early as Wednesday. .. and I want to participate in this discussion, "he said on Fox News.
James Clyburn and Steny Hoyer, aged 78 and 79 respectively, are no more than Nancy Pelosi's "new blood" needed by the Democratic Party, especially to mobilize young people whose votes Hillary Clinton has missed so much in 2016. .
No candidate of the new generation, however, seems to impose itself, even if some names circulate like those of Cedric Richmond, 45, elected from Louisiana and president of the black parliamentary group in Congress, or Ben Ray Lujan, 46, elected New -Mexico and chairman of the campaign commission of the Democratic Party.
(Susan Cornwell, Tangi Salaün for French Service, edited by Jean-Philippe Lefief)
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