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11/03/2020 4:25 PM
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Updated 11/03/2020 4:25 PM
If Joseph Robinette Biden Jr, massively known as
Joe Biden
, manages to displace Donald Trump from the White House, a man completely opposed to the tycoon will occupy the helm of the world's leading power.
It will be a kind of
return to the establishment
, to the leadership of someone who spent 47 years in the corridors of power, who is used to negotiating, who is welcome on Wall Street and who will govern with a calm and predictable style, far from the unprecedented "mountain Russian "and chaos of Trump's first term.
Senator elected 6 times, vice president of Barack Obama for two terms and leader of the Senate, Biden already has the experience of how to govern and seek consensus.
It will be
the return to "normality"
of someone known who will not bring too many surprises, in good manners, who will seek to close the unthinkable divisions in this country.
Their challenge is to include the
ultra-conservative Trump bases
who detest the leaders stationed in Washington, whom they see as corrupt and elitist bureaucrats.
If he wins, Biden will have to struggle even from the very transition.
First, it will be necessary to see if Trump accepts the results immediately and if it facilitates the transfer of command: the tycoon is someone who boasts of
never losing
at anything and a defeat will plunge him into a kind of fury and depression.
Various changes
Once he begins his term, Biden promises several changes regarding the Trump administration.
His first and urgent task will be to
combat the pandemic
, which has already had more than 230,000 deaths and is in a moment of reappearance.
It will have a different approach than its predecessor: as promised, it will force the use of the mask at the national level;
You will listen to the scientists
and they will be the ones to communicate the policy.
it will duplicate testing and case tracking and allow an opening of the economy and a return to classes in a "safe" manner.
On an economic level, Biden will reopen the United States to global trade and seek to rebuild the tariff war with China and the EU.
On the domestic front, he promised to re-boost the manufacturing and technology industry and will seek to relieve the middle class by
raising the minimum wage
to $ 15 an hour.
A "Vote Biden 2020" sign on the ground in Philadelphia.
Photo: Bloomberg
Although Democratic governments tend to raise taxes, Biden promised that he will not raise them for families who earn
less than $ 400,000
per year and new ones will be applied to those who earn more.
It will also ease the debt burden on students and make a hefty investment in infrastructure of $ 1.3 trillion.
As for health, he promises to
improve "Obamacare"
and access to coverage, although he distanced himself from the slogan of "free health for all" advocated by Bernie Sanders.
He will take a different approach than Trump on
the environmental issue
, something that worries Biden and the Democrats a lot.
He will return to the Paris Climate Agreement and implement regulations on polluting emissions that had been eliminated by the Republican to reach zero in 2050. Although he said that he will not prohibit fracking, as Trump alleged, that activity
could be limited.
Unlike its predecessor, it will bet on clean energy.
Despite the fact that he is a white man and 77 years old, it is estimated that it will be a
more inclusive and diverse government
and that has already been noted since the election of his running mate Kamala Harris, of a Jamaican father and Indian mother, and also in his Support for BlackLivesMatter's Movement Against Racism and Police Violence.
Although he is a 77-year-old white man, it is estimated that it will be a more inclusive and diverse government.
Photo: AP
It will return to a policy of
open borders that is
more favorable to immigration and will also favor the expansion of the rights of the LGTBQ community.
He will fight in Congress for more gun controls and a ban on the sale of semi-automatic rifles.
At the international level, it will seek to restore the influence that the United States lost in the world, according to
expert Joseph Nye
told
Clarín
, it will return to the
multilateralism
that the current administration left and will become more involved in global conflicts.
As for the relationship with Latin America, Biden knows the region well because when he was vice he was appointed by Obama to take charge of the area.
He will try to deepen ties and focus on a
democratic transition in Venezuela
.
There may be problems with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where the countries of the region supported for the first time in history the election of a Trump candidate,
Mauricio Claver Carone
, who has a five-year term.
Regarding our country, Arturo Valenzuela, a former Obama official for the region, told
Clarín
that the relationship between a Biden government and Kirchnerism "can be
pragmatic
and there can also be friction."
Washington, correspondent
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