Alexandria Ocasio Cortez says Democrats need to seek new leadership and defend their state project

Washington dc – Puerto Rican Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez said today that Democrats must seek new leadership in Congress, but warns that there is no plan to adequately fill the gap left by Nancy Pelosi and Charles Schumer at the moment.

In an interview with the podcast Intercepted, Ocasio Cortez, elected by a district of New York, said that because there are “so many nefarious forces at stake,” there is the issue that promoting this change will now lead to “something even worse.”

With his expressions, Ocasio Cortez makes it clear that Democrats, though probably likely Pelosi as Speaker of the House of Representatives either as the Senate leader in the session beginning in January, should start thinking about a new leadership.

For Pelosi, the 117th session of Congress could be his last at the Federal Capitol. Schumer still aspires to his Senate majority leader. It will not be until Jan. 5, in two second rounds in Georgia, that they will decide whether Democrats or Republicans will control the Senate.

Discard, for example, refusing to vote for Pelosi in January, unless the speaker gave way to the Medicare for All project promoted by independent Senator Bernie Sanders (Vermont). According to the legislature, the Liberals would lose a vote on Medicare for all in the House.

In her case, Ocasio Cortez maintained that she is not ready to be a leadership option in the lower house. “The House of Representatives is extraordinarily complex and I am not ready. I know I can’t do this job “, Said Ocasio Cortez, to emphasize that he is not proposing as an alternative.

The 31-year-old Puerto Rican congresswoman is a star among the Liberals, although she is just finishing her first two-year term in the lower house. She was re-elected last November.

There have been speculations that Ocasio Cortez might be thinking of running for a seat in the Senate in New York soon. Senators for New York Schumer and Kirsten Gillibran will run for re-election in 2022 and 2024, respectively.

In the interview, Ocasio Cortez wanted to denounce the Promise Act to consider that still under the colonial system, deprives Puerto Rico of fiscal autonomy and impose a Board of Fiscal Supervision (JSF) that considers responding to the interests of Wall Street.

He also defended the bill he has co-sponsored with his Puerto Rican Democratic congressional college Nydia Velázquez to link Congress with a state convention in Puerto Rico that allows for the decolonization of the island and facilitates a process of self-determination.

Ocasio Cortez said that they are promoting “true self-determination, not these Creole plebiscites” that have been taken to the island and have had no consequences.