Washington_ The Democratic Party would have won the majority of the House of Representatives after the elections on Tuesday, November 6, which, although it is a defeat for the Republican political organization, it is also clearly a defeat for Donald Trump, one of the most polarizing and unpopular presidents in modern history. In the Senate, the victory went to the other side, when reaching the same 51 positions, Granma publishes.
In the absence of the final results, about 01:30 hours on Wednesday, November 7, the data already showed that Americans have chosen a Congress with more women and more racial and religious diversity.
At that time the result was 206 seats for the Democrats by 189 Republicans, which reflected the projections of the world's main media that followed the elections minute by minute.
El País, for example, with its correspondent in Washington, Amanda Mars, read: "The first projections of the legislative elections suggest that the Democratic Party has regained control on Tuesday of the US House of Representatives after eight years of Republican majority and leaves weakened what remains of Donald Trump's term”.
In these elections, the Congress renewed its 435 seats and the defeat of the Republicans leaves them with 215, 20 less than those achieved in 2016.
This victory allows the Democrats to monitor the power of the president and give them the power to launch several investigations possibly harmful to the current administration.
They could also investigate the shadowy business practices of the brand and real estate empire of the White House tenant, which is currently supervised by his children. They would also have the possibility of starting an impeachment process against the president. And logically it would be to see the impact that this event will have on the president's agenda on issues such as immigration.
The dominance of the Congress also means that the Democrats will determine all the legislation of the next two years, although Trump could veto any measure before becoming law, because Congress can overcome this veto with two thirds of the votes. If this result is translated, it is a sign of weakening of Trump's possibilities with a view to his reelection in 2020.
For the Republicans to maintain the majority of the Senate includes aspects such as continuing to approve the conservative judicial appointments of Trump and hamper any attempt to impeach him, because for that purpose the conviction of the Senate and a Republican majority in the known as High Chamber would not be mathematically possible, because to judge Donald Trump, two thirds of the vote of the 100 senators is needed, that is, 67 of them. Today the Democrats do not have enough seats or the support of the Republicans to achieve it.
Most of the specialists, both inside the United States and abroad, saw, and with much good sense, that these elections expressed a referendum for the US president. Seen like that, Trump has just suffered his first electoral defeat.
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