If Pelosi is bypassed, or doesn't want the job, the rules call for the presidency to go to the Senate's president pro-tempore who at the moment is 87-year-old Republican Chuck Grassley.
In 2003, Sofiane went to jail after he stabbed a man he had seen beating his own mother. When he was released, he repudiated violence, because he realised the disenfranchised were fighting each other.
The power grab, he said, was justified by the constitution and necessary to quell unrest over a sputtering economy and one of Africa's worst outbreaks of covid-19.
The assassins thought they would seize power and make everything wonderful, while Caesar's right hand man and dear friend Mark Antony thought he would take over the Cesar family operation.
The rebel leader who seized power in the Central African Republic two weeks ago, Michel Djotodia, has created the new body to select an interim president.