Maria Laura Avignolo
11/04/2020 2:48 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 11/04/2020 2:48 PM
Europe waits restlessly and patiently for the results of the presidential election in the United States, which has become a global phenomenon.
It notes with concern the allegations of fraud and the self-proclamation of victory by the Republican candidate and president, Donald Trump.
On the day the United States officially withdrew from the Paris climate change agreement, prudence is the sign.
From France to Britain to Germany,
all have refused to comment on the victorious
and accusatory
claims
of the president.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson declined to make a single comment on Trump's call to stop the vote count.
"We as a British government do not comment on the democratic process of our friends and allies," said the head of government, in the parliamentary interpellation with the Labor opposition.
Labor
leader
Sir Keir Starmer asked him if he agreed that "it is not a candidate who says what votes or not should be counted and when the counting should stop."
Electoral authorities are working on the counting of votes that arrived by mail in an office in Detroit, Michigan, one of the states where the results remain suspended.
Photo: AFP
British Chancellor Dominic Raab asked "patience to wait for the final results."
His fear is that "it will end in a great battle and that people will talk about the theft of the election."
His former colleague Tory, Jeremy Hunt said it would be "a disaster for the democratic cause around the world if the election ends on allegations of fraud."
“My biggest concern is that we forget that the United States is leading democracy in the world.
If we end a huge battle over the process and people talking about stolen elections left and right, we are going to put a smile on the faces of people like President Putin and President Xi Jinping, who are going to look at their people and go to say: 'Are you not happy because we don't have any of this mess?'
And that will be a disaster, "diagnosed the former British Chancellor.
The Johnson government seeks a free trade agreement with the United States, following its departure from Europe
.
Boris has a good relationship with Trump, a Brexit supporter who wants to see the link between Britain and the European Union broken, but seeks to keep his administration out of the current controversy.
Partial results of the presidential election in the United States in the key states, partial results as of Wednesday, November 4 in the morning.
Source: AFP
Despite the famous but deteriorated "special relations" with its best transatlantic ally,
the British Foreign Ministry is more comfortable with a president like Joe Biden
to continue discussing the nuclear agreement with Iran, climate change or relations with China.
Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the former British ambassador to the United States, highlighted the fact that if Trump wins, the United States will continue to underperform in the world.
He expressed his concern "with a country that is internally very divided and suffering enormous social problems," when the Republican is not going to provide the leadership that is needed and that the world expects of him.
Concern in Germany
In Germany, a Trump victory provokes despair
.
"We are not prepared for this," said Norbert Röttghen, the chairman of the Bundestag's Foreign Relations committee.
Peter Atlmaier, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, said that “if it is a tight result there will be a long discussion.
Regardless of who wins, it is very bad that an American election has communicated with a domestic agenda, "he said.
German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp Karrenbauer concluded.
”This is an explosive situation.
This is a situation that can lead us to a constitutional crisis in the United States, experts are saying, and this generates great concern, ”he said.
The government of Germany's Angela Merkel is also anxiously awaiting a resolution on the results of the elections in the United States, Photo: REUTERS
Europe has the upper hand if Donald Trump wins.
The American president abandoned his allies
and had an erratic international policy during his term.
The greatest risk is the explosion of NATO, when the Islamist terrorist risk grows again throughout the continent and half of Europe is under "attack alert".
Trump demands that his partners contribute 2 percent of their GDP to the defense spending of the alliance, as if it were a company.
The consequence will be that Europe will develop strategic autonomy if Trump wins.
Marine Le Pen, leader of the renamed former National Front and representative of the French extreme right, said that "Trump's re-election would be better for France."
"A Trump victory will mean the return of nations, the end of savage globalization.
The reality is that one perceives that the media class, as they usually do, sees the world as they want it and not as it is, "Le Pen said in Cnews.
Slovenia, the country where the now nationalized Melania Trump, the first American lady, was born, was the only European country that recognized the triumph of Donald Trump on Wednesday morning.
Slovenian far-right anti-immigrant prime minister Janez Janza celebrated and accused the media of "further procrastination and denial of facts."
Iran will divide or bring the United States closer if Biden or Trump wins.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani said the election results were not important to his country.
But he called on the next US president "to respect international treaties and laws."
Europe supports a nuclear deal with Iran that the United States has repudiated.
The European stock markets opened red before the chaos in the United States.
Paris, correspondent
Look also
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