Democratic legislator Nancy Pelosi, 83 years old and former president of the US House of Representatives, announced this Friday that in 2024 she will run for re-election to try to keep her seat in San Francisco.
“Now more than ever our city needs us to promote the values of San Francisco and our recovery. Our country needs America to show the world that our flag is still there, with freedom and justice for ALL. That is why I am running for re-election and I respectfully ask for your vote,” he wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
The first and only woman to preside over the House of Representatives in the history of the United States stopped leading that chamber after the Democrats lost their majority in the November 2022 midterm elections.
When that same month she announced her intention not to seek the leadership of the Democratic opposition caucus, Pelosi did make it clear that she was going to keep her seat representing District 12 of San Francisco, which she will try to keep in 2024.
Her decision to retire from the political front was influenced by the attack her husband suffered at the end of October at the family home in San Francisco by a man who was looking for her.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and mother of five children, Pelosi made history by becoming the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives in 2007, a position she held until the Democrats lost their majority in that chamber in 2011.
The representative from San Francisco was once again third in the presidential line of succession, behind the vice president, when she was re-elected in January 2019 as the highest authority in Congress, a position that she renewed in 2021.
At that time, his feud with former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021) marked his career. It was she who initiated the two political trials against him in 2019 for his pressure on Ukraine to investigate the then former Vice President Joe Biden and in 2021 for the assault on the Capitol on January 6 of that year, of which he was acquitted.
