She is 82 years old and is one of the most powerful women in the politics of USA, but this Thursday he announced that his stage as Democratic leader in the House of Representatives has come to an end. After the republican victory of the last elections, Nancy Pelosi he leaves the Democratic leadership after two decades at the helm: “American democracy is majestic, but it is fragile. Thank you all and God bless America,” he said.
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Pelosi, 82, has been the first and so far only woman to lead the House of Representatives. Her withdrawal also comes only 20 days after her husband, Paul, was brutally attacked in his San Francisco home with a hammer. The target was his wife, as they stopped the attacker at the back door yelling “Where’s Nancy?” The businessman suffered a skull fracture for which he had to undergo emergency surgery, in addition to other injuries.
Last year, the same house woke up covered in graffiti and with a pig’s head hanging, in protest of the economic proposals that the policy authorized to alleviate the effects of the pandemic.
Pelosi will keep her House seat, but her resignation in the House of Representatives is a hard blow to Biden. Eric Swalwell o Tim Ryan they sound like the favorites to succeed her.
Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro, as she is called, is an icon of American politics. She came into the world in 1940 and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where her father was mayor. The only daughter, she is the youngest of seven siblings born to Annunciata Nancy Lombardi and Thomas D’Alesandro. Her mother was born in Campobasso, in central Italy, and her father was able to trace her ancestry to the Italian cities of Genoa and Venice and the Abruzzo region. Her passion for her politics comes from caste because her father was a congressman and mayor of Baltimore up to three times.
Pelosi, Catholic like her family, studied at Trinity College at the express wish of her mother, who wanted her only girl to be religious: “He always wanted me to be a nun, but in any case I would have wanted to be a priest, because it seemed to me that there was something more power there,” Pelosi herself confessed a few years ago.
Pelosi thought of studying Law, but the image of the traditional woman that was held at the time made her opt to start a family and not dedicate herself professionally to her great passion: politics, although she was always glued to the fight for her Democratic ideals. In 1963, she said “I do” to real estate businessman Paul Pelosi, with whom she had four daughters and one son. However, during this time he was already part of the Democratic party.
Her political career took a big leap in the 1980s when Congresswoman Sala Burton He named her as his successor when he already saw death just around the corner after the colon cancer he was diagnosed with. She accepted her seat and in 1987 she really began her meteoric career in American politics.
As for his best-known daughters, one of them, Christine, the political vein of his mother and grandfather has also come out. Pelosi’s daughter is a political strategist within her own party. The other most popular is Alexandra, director of documentaries that are successfully distributed on HBO. Nancy also has other treasures for which she loses her mind, nothing more and nothing less than eight grandchildren who fill the marriage with joy. Outside of politics, it should be noted that she has recently been in charge of a vineyard in Santa Helena, California.
