After 15 rounds of voting, the Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, finally managed to secure the necessary votes to be elected Speaker of the House،

McCarthy beat the Democratic candidate Hakeem Jeffries after Ryan Zinke from Montana cast his vote, giving McCarthy the victory he had been waiting for days.

The Republicans in the House applauded with obvious enthusiasm, after almost 12 and a half hours had passed since the start of the proceedings on the fourth day of voting and 15 rounds of voting were held over 4 days.

US President Joe Biden, who belongs to the Democratic Party, congratulated McCarthy on the victory. Republicans have already vowed to open investigations into Biden, his administration and his family's business dealings.

Of the 428 votes cast, McCarthy received 216, while Jeffries received 212.

Over the past days, a group of right-wingers in the Republican Party has thwarted attempts to elect McCarthy, putting the US government in a difficult situation that the United States has not seen since the pre-Civil War era.

A group of 20 hard-line Republican lawmakers had been refusing to give McCarthy the 218 votes needed to win the post.

These deputies questioned the goodwill of the congressman from California, who was supported by former President Donald Trump.

This is the first time since 1860, when the Union of the United States was in a tug-of-war over the issue of slavery, that the House of Representatives voted several times to choose a president for him. At that time, it took 44 rounds of balloting.

The work of the speaker of the Sejm includes setting the agenda of the Sejm and supervising legislative work. The speaker of the House of Representatives is the second, after the vice-president, to assume the functions of the presidency in case of vacancy.

Last November, Republicans won by a narrow margin of 222 votes to 212 in the 435-seat chamber. The Democrats retained the majority in the Senate.