US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has agreed to hand over leadership of the Democratic Party to the next House following the midterm elections in which the party narrowly lost its majority to Republicans.
Thus Pelosi – who made history as the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives – thus closes a twenty-year era of partisan leadership, marked in her last years by fierce political battles, especially with former President Donald Trump.
And Pelosi, 82, announced on Thursday that “the time has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic Assembly, which it has so strongly postponed.” “I will not run for Democratic administration in the next Congress,” he added.
Pelosi was elected in 2003 as leader of the Democratic minority in the House of Representatives and achieved the presidency in 2007.
US President Joe Biden praised her, underlining – in a statement – that “she protected our democracy from the violent and bloody insurrection of January 6” and called her “the most important speaker of the House of Representatives in our history” .
Former President Barack Obama also praised her, calling her “one of the most accomplished lawmakers in American history.”
As the Pelosi era winds down, star Representative Hakeem Jeffries, who seeks to succeed her as Democrat leader, is becoming the first black leader of either party in the US Congress.
