Fratricidal fight in the Republican Party to choose the president of the House of Representatives

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"I have earned this position!"

"That's bullshit!"

Thus has ended the debate within the Republican Party to decide who will be the next president of the

, the third position in the line of succession of the president.

Republicans retook control of the House in the November elections, and now they must choose the president.

Normally, it is a routine vote.

The position usually goes almost automatically to the congressman who held the position of minority leader -which would be equivalent to that of head of the opposition in Spain-, held by the Californian

, who is the one who, in the previous paragraph, stated having won the post after four years in opposition.

In fact, a century has passed since a candidate for the presidency of the House failed to win the necessary support on the first ballot, when the democrat Frederick Gillette needed 9 ballots to be elected speaker of the House of Representatives.

Now, everything seems to indicate that McCarthy is going to unintentionally break that hundred-year-old record, since he

to be named speaker of the House due to the rejection of a series of far-right congressmen, such as Lauren Boebert, from Colorado, who is the one who considers the presumed right of the head of the opposition to achieve the position he aspires to be "bullshit."

Opposition to McCarthy is largely concentrated in the so-called

.

A

is an informal group -it could almost be compared to a

club- whose influence depends on its ideology and who its members are.

The

was born with the

, the ultra-conservative movement that emerged in 2009 after the victory of Barack Obama, which later gave rise to Donald Trump.

And that, paradoxically, has made his position totally irreconcilable with that of those who support the candidacy of the leader.

The key is that the rioters

.

With about 200 members of Congress supporting McCarthy, versus about 20 who reject him, defenders of the House speaker candidate insist that what

and its allies are promoting is, plain and simple, the rule of the minority over the majority.

On the contrary, the ultra-conservatives who oppose McCarthy say - not without reason - that he has demonstrated such a lack of principle - what for others is pragmatism -

and dedicate yourself to reaching consensus agreements with the Democrats.

Issues such as the cancellation of aid to Ukraine, for example, are areas in which the irreducible Republicans -who are also faithful supporters of Donald Trump- know that McCarthy is going to threaten, but in which in the end he will end up closing agreements with the Democrats and with the White House of Joe Biden.

And that's where the political struggle has become personal.

Texas Republican Rep. and (moderate) Trump critic Dan Crenshaw, who supports McCarthy, has called the opposition "narcissists" who "are benefiting the Democrats."

McCarthy himself has stated that

(the record stands at 133, in the year 1855) until he wins, and has accused

of asking for unreasonable concessions.

So the nerves are on the surface.

Every time he's on television, McCarthy is louder and more irritable, while his rivals—literally, the opposition of the opposition—give the impression of absolute certainty about the justice of his convictions.

Be that as it may,

, in which McCarthy will win in the end but at the price of weak leadership that will limit his role as leader of the Republican opposition.

It is nothing more than the new episode of the fight between the conservative and populist faction that has marked that party since 2009.

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