华盛顿特区议会新人霍尔茨宣誓就任 28岁成最年轻议员
贾马尔·霍尔茨11月9日下午宣誓就任华盛顿特区议会临时全市议员，接替辞职参选特区国会代表的罗伯特·怀特留下的席位。28岁的霍尔茨是土生土长的华盛顿人，在第八选区长大、第七选区读高中，现居第六选区，过去四年担任特区青年民主党人组织主席。他自称是议会首位Z世代成员。霍尔茨的任命由特区民主党州委员会根据紧急授权作出，明确为临时性质。特区民主党将成立一个由八个选区代表组成的13人特别委员会，通过更公开的程序遴选任期更长的临时人选。霍尔茨表示，他不会参加补选，也无意申请留任，一旦党内完成遴选他就让位。补选定于4月6日举行。议会主席菲尔·门德尔松主持了宣誓仪式。围绕该席位的争夺此前一度陷入僵局：全市议员克里斯蒂娜·亨德森曾宣布参选，后因党籍规则争议退出；特区自治宪章规定五个全市席位中同一政党不得超过三席，门德尔松依据议会律师的法律意见作出决定，安排霍尔茨宣誓就任。
Jamal Holtz Sworn In as Interim At-Large D.C. Councilmember, the Council’s Youngest Member at 28
Jamal Holtz was sworn in on the afternoon of November 9 as an interim at-large member of the Council of the District of Columbia, filling the seat left by Robert White, who resigned to run for D.C.’s delegate seat in Congress. Holtz, 28, is a native Washingtonian who grew up in Ward 8, attended high school in Ward 7 and now lives in Ward 6, and has chaired the D.C. Young Democrats for the past four years. He describes himself as the council’s first Gen Z member. His appointment was made by the D.C. Democratic State Committee under its emergency authority and is explicitly interim. The party will form a 13-member special committee drawn from the eight wards to select a longer-serving interim replacement through a more open process. Holtz says he will not run in the special election or seek to stay on, and will step aside once the party completes its selection. The special election is set for April 6. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson administered the oath. The contest for the seat had earlier reached an impasse: at-large Councilmember Christina Henderson had declared her candidacy but withdrew amid a dispute over party-affiliation rules; the Home Rule Charter bars one party from holding more than three of the five at-large seats, and Mendelson, acting on the advice of the council’s lawyers, moved to swear Holtz in.
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