China News Service, January 4th, comprehensive report, on the morning of the 3rd local time, the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the new US Congress was held.

In the first round of voting, Republican leader McCarthy failed to get enough 218 votes, so the election of the speaker of the House of Representatives will enter the next round of voting until someone wins.

It is reported that this is the first time in a century that the House of Representatives failed to elect a speaker in the first round of voting.

Data map: House Republican leader McCarthy.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sha Hanting

　　According to a CNN report, due to the very limited lead in Republican seats, McCarthy can only lose 4 votes from members of his party at most.

But in the first round of voting, 19 Republican lawmakers did not vote for McCarthy.

　　This is the first time since 1923 that the vote for the speaker of the House of Representatives has failed to reach a result in the first round.

This shows that although the Republicans won the majority of seats in the House of Representatives, their control of the House of Representatives has not been smooth sailing, showing the divisions within the Republican Party.

　　In the subsequent second round of voting, McCarthy still only received 203 votes, of which 19 Republican representatives voted for Ohio Republican Jim Jordan in the second round, although Jordan indicated that he did not want to compete for the position and hoped that McCarthy would be elected speaker .

　　In the third round of voting, McCarthy still failed to reverse the situation, and even lost one more vote, only getting 202 votes.

Florida Republican Byron Donalds, who had voted for him in the first two rounds, also voted for Jordan in the third.

　　According to Reuters, after the second round of voting, McCarthy showed no signs of withdrawing from the campaign, saying: "We will stick to it until we win...it will eventually change."

　　Democratic leader Jeffries won the support of all Democrats in all three ballots, receiving 212 votes.

The threshold for winning the speaker of the House of Representatives is 218 votes.

　　After the speaker's dystocia, the plenary session of the House of Representatives passed a motion to adjourn, and the session will resume at noon on the 4th to continue the election of the speaker.

　　Analysts say the protracted election for the speaker of the House of Representatives could undermine hopes for House Republicans to make quick progress on priorities, including investigations into the Biden administration and his family, as well as legislation on the U.S. economy, energy independence and border security.

　　The fiercest opposition in the Republican Party has come from the right.

The "New York Times" analyzed that even if McCarthy wins enough votes, he will obviously be coerced by the right wing as speaker, because he has to give them some promises during the canvassing process.

　　But on the other hand, some opponents in the Republican Party expressed that they did not believe in the promise McCarthy made to them at the last moment.

　　The "Washington Post" pointed out that the longest and most controversial election for the speaker of the House of Representatives in American history was in 1855. At that time, there were 133 rounds of voting and it took nearly 2 months.

The last time the election of the Speaker of the House of Representatives failed in the first round was in 1923. It took nine rounds of voting to elect a new speaker.