New York, United States.
The Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez He believes there has to be a change in leadership Democrats in the US Congress, and that some members of the newly elected president’s team Joe Biden they have the same profile that plundered the rise of Donald Trump.
In an interview published Wednesday by the middle left The Intercept, Ocasio-Cortez called for a prominent figure who left behind the leadership of the veteran president of the lower house, the Democrat Nancy Pelosi, and the leader of the party minority in the Senate, Chuck Schumer.
“Yes, I think we need new leadership in the Democratic Party “, said the influential legislator New York, which integrates the wing more progressivea de la opposition formation to Trump.
Ocasio-Cortez hurried to clarify that she does not aspire to take the Pelosi’s relief: “The lower house is extraordinarily complex, and I’m not ready. I can’t be me. I know I couldn’t do this job. “
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The rubs with Hairy of Ocasio-Cortez and his comrades in the progressive informal group known as “The Brigade” (“The template”) are well known in Washingtonn, but the legislator clarified that it is not considered easy to replace the octogenarian president of the Lower Camera.
“If we create that vacuum (of power), there are many evil forces they will want to fill it with something yet worse“, said the Puerto Rican ray congresswoman.
According to Ocasio-Cortez, there are no viable alternatives to Hairy because the current party leaders have spent many years concentrating power without “really preparing for a next generation of leadership.”
Schumer, of 70 years, was reelected in November by other two years like leader of the democrats in the Senate; while Hairy will try to get the next January 3 the support of his party to renew his position as president of the Lower Camera, in a vote in plenary.
Ocasio-Cortez he gave no sign that he would vote against the candidacy of Hairy, who competes for the charge without any rival, but does advocate for progressives to try to extract concessions related to their priorities in exchange for support.
Which did indicate the legislator is that the Democrats “really have to think” about who will replace Pelosi sand not to run again as president of the Camera in 2023, as he has hinted.
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As for Biden, Ocasio-Cortez He said it was “horrible” that the president-elect had included people who had worked for the US financial institution in his transition team – not necessarily the one who will accompany him to the White House. Goldman Sachs, several consultants, Facebook and Google.
About future members of the Cabinet and their team in the White House, the congresswoman said that while some celebrate that Biden has recovered veterans of the Barack Obama Administration (2009-2017), we must not forget that expressive elected “many” nominees from the era of Bill Clinton (1993-2001).
Raising such officials and their way of doing things is “a big reason why he was elected Donald Trump“, due to” extreme disdain for “the” political “and money-driven establishment run by Washington,” he said. Ocasio-Cortez, 31 years old. EFE