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  • Impeachment.What is it and who has it affected?

The Democratic opposition in the US already has a majority in the lower house favorable to initiate a impeachment process against the president, Donald Trump, according to estimates by various media.

Between 218 and 219 congressmen (all Democrats except one who was elected as a Republican and is now independent) have declared themselves in favor of initiating the proceedings for the political trial or directly from the impeachment process.

The majority in the House of Representatives mark it 218 votes, so this Wednesday for the first time that limit was exceeded after the leader of the Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, announced on Tuesday the formal start of the proceedings for the political trial.

Less than twenty of the 235 Democratic lawmakers in that chamber still oppose, or have not been in favor, of the political trial against Trump.

If the Lower House votes in favor of the impeachment process, it will be the Senate - with a Republican majority - in charge of holding the political trial against the president, in which it would take two thirds of the votes to dismiss him.

Pelosi decided to open the process for a political trial after learning that Trump asked Kiev as "favor" to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter for possible corruption in Ukraine.

Democrats accuse Trump of "betrayal" of the Constitution and national security for having asked a foreign government to investigate Biden, so far one of the favorites to win the Democratic primary next year.

For his part, the leader of the Republican minority in the lower house, Kevin McCarthy, who has maintained Trump-friendly discipline in his bloc, said that Mars s "was a black day for the United States" because of the process launched by the Democratic opposition.

This Wednesday the White House made public the transcript of the call between Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, Vladimir Zelenski, which took place on July 25 and whose existence was learned after an internal complaint from an American intelligence official.

Also on Wednesday, the White House handed Congress a copy of the internal complaint filed by the intelligence official following the call between Trump and Zelenski, something he had refused to do for weeks.

Precisely, the House of Representatives unanimously approved a resolution on Wednesday asking the Government to deliver that copy.

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