DNC takes a step to fulfill the election of David Hogg and Malcolm Kenyatta as vice chairs

The reference level of the Democratic National Committee voted on Monday to make the results of the vote of the internal party invalid, so David Hogg made a vice chairman of the party and ruled that the elections had not followed the correct parliamentary procedures.

The decision – which came after about three hours of internal debate and one draw – will end up the issue for the entire body of the Democratic National Committee. It must decide whether she has to force Mr. Hogg and a second vice chairman, Malcolm Kenyatta, to run again in another election later this year.

Mr. HOGG, 25, A pronounced survivor of the shooting in 2018 in Parkland, Fla., Has led a fierce recoil About his plans To spend up to $ 20 million through another organization that he leads, leaders we earn, on primary campaigns against sitting Democrats. Ken Martin, the party chairman, said it is inappropriate For Mr Hogg to interfere in primaries while he serves as a party officer and has recommended to change the statutes of the party to force him to sign a neutrality promise.

The pronunciation by the reference level on Monday was technically not related to Mr. Hogg’s decision to make primaries. Instead, it was the result of a complaint from one of the losing candidates in that vice chair race, Kalyn Free. Mrs Free said that the party had wrongly combined two separate questions in one vote, giving the female candidates a disadvantage because of the rules for gender parity of the party.

In a statement, Mr. Hogg acknowledged that the decision on procedural grounds was, but said: “It is also impossible to ignore the broader context of my work to reform the party that gained this vote.”

“The DNC has promised to remove me, and this mood has offered a way to speed up that effort,” he added.

In a statement, Mr Martin said: “I am disappointed to hear that before I became chairman, there was a procedural error in the Vice chairman of February. The reference level has issued their recommendation, and I trust that the DNC members will carefully assess the resolution of the committee and resolve this issue fairly.”

The decision of Mr HOGG to make primaries was not the subject of the discussion on Monday, which called in the mysterious parliamentary procedures and the decision of party officials to combine the voices for the last two vice chairman Slots in one voice.

Mr. Hogg and Mr. Kenyatta were both chosen at the same time. Mr Kenyatta, 34, is a state legislator in Pennsylvania, and their elections as vice chairs had injected two younger voices into the leadership of the party.

“This is about fairness and ensuring that three women and voting members of the DNC are not detached,” said Mrs. Free in a statement before the meeting, in which she had called in a parliamentary expert to argue.

The references committee was torn apart about what to do. A first resolution of Christine Pelosi, the daughter of former house speaker Nancy Pelosi, who wanted to reject the complaint, resulted in a draw. A second resolution in which was called for a new election with the same candidates who participated in February was ultimately approved.