Mike Johnson gains the support of the most extreme Republicans and is named Speaker of the House

The Republican congressman from Louisiana Mike Johnson was named this Wednesday as president of the United States House of Representatives after managing to unite the Republican Party around his figure and undoing the institutional blockade in which the Capitol had been mired since the beginning of October after the dismissal of the previous president of the Lower House, Kevin McCarthy.

Johnson, a recognized ally of former President Donald Trump, has managed to get the 'hard wing' of the party - from the extreme right and recognized 'Trumpists' - to support him in an election in which he got 220 votes compared to the candidate's 209. Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries, reports CNN.

Later, during his first speech as president of the House of Representatives, Johnson dedicated a few words of gratitude to McCarthy, of whom he valued his more than two decades of life, 16 of those years as representatives, "dedicated to the service disinterested public."

Likewise, the new president of the House has also questioned Jeffries himself, to whom he has acknowledged that although they have "different points of view" on how to act on certain issues, he knows that "deep down he wants to do what is right." and hopes to reach "common ground."

After the appointment of the new president of the House of Representatives, the president of the Senate, Democrat Chuck Schumer, has advocated sitting down to debate new measures on Capitol Hill "to avoid a government shutdown" as "the only way" to work for the good of the United States is bipartisan.

For his part, former President Trump, who had previously given his approval to Johnson, has published a message on his own social network profile, Truth Social, in which he assures that the new speaker will be a "great president." of the House of Representatives.

Despite having a majority in the House, the Republican Party has seen how the appointment of the president of the chamber - the third authority in the country - has been blocked on numerous occasions when considering that the candidates will not sufficiently oppose the progressive policies of the Joe Biden Administration.

This hardline Republican bloc was responsible for the no-confidence motion that ousted McCarthy from the Presidency of the House of Representatives at the beginning of October, and also for Ohio Representative Jim Jordan's attempts to be thwarted on up to three occasions.

The Republican Party held an internal vote on Tuesday, a kind of primary election, to name its candidate to preside over the chamber. Although the most voted option was the party's 'number two' in the House of Representatives, Tom Emmer, he resigned from the candidacy hours later in view of the fact that his investiture would be frustrated by his own party colleagues.

After this scare by Emmer, the Republican Party held a second vote in which Johnson won, who already received Trump's approval this Wednesday. The former president released a message on his social networks this Wednesday in which he supported him and urged Republicans to support his inauguration.