11 votes without choosing a president What happens in the US House of Representatives?

This is the first time in more than a century that the House of Representatives has failed to elect a president in its inaugural session, putting the US government in a difficult position not seen since the pre-Civil War era.

For 3 days, the Republican majority in the US House of Representatives failed to deliver its main candidate, Kevin McCarthy, to the position of Speaker of the House, to succeed Democrat Nancy Pelosi.

During the three days, 11 voting sessions were held, during which about 20 hard-line Republican deputies did not back down from their position not to support McCarthy, ignoring former US President Donald Trump's call to endorse him.

The matter did not end there, but the deputies opposed to McCarthy supported another Republican candidate, Brian Donalds, for the same position.

This is the first time in more than a century that the House of Representatives has failed to elect a president in its inaugural session, putting the US government in a difficult position not seen since the pre-Civil War era.

And the US House of Representatives disagreed on the identity of the speaker in 1860, when the Union of the United States was in a tug of war over the issue of slavery, until it took 44 rounds of voting.

Opposition lawmakers refuse to grant McCarthy the 218 votes needed to win office, out of a total of 435 deputies.

The twenty Republican representatives question the goodwill and competence of the California congressman, despite his endorsement by Trump.

These Republican representatives belong to the "Freedom Caucus" in the House of Representatives, which is the most right-wing and conservative bloc among Republicans.

And this bloc was established from the womb of the "Tea Party" movement in early 2010, and it is a current located on the right of the Republican Party, and this current had previously challenged Republican House Speaker John Boehner.

The Democrats also nominated their leader, Hakeem Jeffries, to face any Republican candidate for the presidency of the House of Representatives.

In this regard, Trump sent a message to Republican representatives on his social networking platform: "Don't turn a great victory into a colossal defeat. It's time to celebrate, you deserve it! Kevin McCarthy will do a good job."

McCarthy has represented California in the House of Representatives since 2007.

He was the minority leader in the House after Republicans lost control of it in the 2018 midterm elections.

The Republican Party again won a simple majority after the midterm elections in the United States last November.

For his part, US President Joe Biden denounced the status quo in the House of Representatives, and said that Congress's failure to perform its duties was "shameful" for the country.