On Thursday, for the third day in a row, until Friday noon, the US House of Representatives adjourned the presidential election session for it after five new rounds of voting, during which the Republican majority again failed to collect the necessary number of votes to elect their candidate Kevin McCarthy as speaker.
As in the six fruitless ballots held on Tuesday and Wednesday, MPs cast their votes in five new ballots held on Thursday, all of which failed.
McCarthy, a representative from California, was unable to convince the 20 or so Republican representatives who supported former President Donald Trump to elect Nancy Pelosi as his successor because they remained unconvinced that he was too moderate.
The meeting for the election of the Speaker of the Council will resume on Friday at 12:00 (17:00 GMT).
Behind the scenes there are tense negotiations between McCarthy and his Republican opponents, without whose votes he cannot win.
Although McCarthy offered these ultra-conservative MPs large concessions, they still refused to vote for him on the grounds that they did not trust him.
