• Elections United States kicks off the year amid political chaos

Things of a federal system.

In most of the United States, Senate elections are held in one round.

But in some - Louisiana, Washington, and California - they have

"the jungle primaries,"

which in practice favor the two-round election.

And then there is Georgia, which in 2020 has combined the "jungle primaries" (basically all candidates, regardless of party, against each other) and a two-round election.

The result: nobody won on November 3, and the elections will be settled this Tuesday.

Two seats are up for grabs.

Both Republicans, occupied by

David Perdue and Kelly Loeffle

r.

If Democratic hopefuls

Jon Ossof and Raphael Warnock

win - which is not impossible - that party would dominate the Senate, albeit by the

bare

minimum.

There would be 50 Republican senators, and 50 Democrats, but Vice President Kamala Harris has a runoff vote.

So the Georgia vote will shape US political life at least until 2022 congressional elections are held again.

The consequence of an eventual Democratic victory would not be a 'roller' of that party in the Senate.

In the United States, legislators have enormous

freedom to vote

and also represent very different constituencies.

And even more so in the Democratic Party, whose voters are socially, economically, culturally and racially very heterogeneous.

The big difference is that, whoever has a majority in the Senate, controls the committees in which the details of the legislation are decided, and, in addition, investigations and hearings are carried out that have a huge impact on public opinion and on the political agenda.

Even so, for Biden, a victory by Ossof and Warnock would considerably facilitate his plans to carry out an

economic stimulus program

against the recession caused by Covid-19 that would include, under the cloak of fighting the crisis, the always postponed plans of infrastructure construction that the US has been discussing since 2009. The program would also include a massive push to the energy transformation in favor of renewables, although that is something that the United States has already achieved in the market and the action of the states, especially some Republicans, such as the great oil producer, Texas, which is the country where renewables are growing the most.

But the Georgia elections are just the appetizer of the political week in the US.

The main course arrives tomorrow, Wednesday, with the

ratification by Congress, in a joint session, of the results of the Electoral College

, the body that formally elects the US president.

In other words, from the November 3 elections.

The session promises to be a political circus, with at least 12 Republican senators - among them, the 'presidential ones' in 2024 Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley - voting against ratification until a 'commission of inquiry' is constituted of the many times. reported - and never accepted by the courts - "irregularities" in the elections.

Yesterday, Donald Trump added fuel to the fire by writing on Twitter that Vice President Mike Pence, who is chairing the session, "has the power to reject fraudulently elected delegates."

The delegates are the members of the Electoral College.

The problem with these initiatives is that, as

Stan Veuger, a

researcher at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, explains, "they are clearly extra-constitutional."

In Veuger's words, "The only constitutional responsibility of Congress is to count the number of votes the candidates have received in the Electoral College. All states have ratified the results and it is completely clear that Joe Biden has won the election."

In order for any objection to these results to go forward, it would need to have the favorable vote of both houses, something impossible, since Democrats control one, and, in addition, most Republicans have accepted the results of the elections. elections.

The former editor of the pro-Republican-oriented newspaper The Wall Street Journal,

Gerald Baker

, has stated in an article that the initiative of the 12 senators, supported by more than 100 members of the House of Representatives, "can be ranked among the most cynically twisted, morally reprehensible, and corrupting acts of political degeneracy and corruption of the soul of democracy ever attempted. "

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