MADRID, 11 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Democrat Tina Kotek will be the next governor of the US state of Oregon after beating her rivals in midterm elections, becoming the country’s second openly lesbian governor, after Maura Healey, who won her election on Tuesday.
The former speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives has defeated Republican Christine Drazan, a former state legislator, and Betsy Johnson, a former Democratic state parliamentarian, who left the party and ran as an unaffiliated candidate, ‘The Washington Post’ has reported.
Kotek will succeed Oregon Governor Kate Brown in a state that has been ruled by Democrats for more than 40 years.
With this victory, the former president of the state Congress has become, along with Democrat Maura Healey in Massachusetts, the first openly lesbian governors in the country.
