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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Fiji’s Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama appears to be the world’s first head of state to send a congratulatory message to Joe Biden, the candidate for President of the United States (USA), although there are no official results yet and the counting of the US presidential elections continues.
Joe Biden and his Democratic running mate Kamala Harris won the US presidential election defeating the incumbent Donald Trump-Mike Pence after winning as many as 290 electoral votes.
According to AP data on Sunday morning (8/11/2020) Indonesian time, Biden won 290 electoral votes, while incumbent Donald Trump had only 214 electoral votes. The number exceeds the threshold of 270 electoral votes out of a total of 538 electoral votes in order to win the US presidential election, so that Biden is sure to win the US presidential election.
Biden’s 290 electoral votes came after Barack Obama’s vice president of the presidency won a narrow victory in the state of Pennsylvania, which has 20 electoral votes, with 49.7% of the votes, while Trump with 49.2%.
Previously there were five states that were battlefield or the Biden-Trump ‘final fight’, namely Nevada (6 electoral votes), Alaska (3), Georgia (16), North Carolina (15), Pennsylvania (20).
Frank Bainimarama congratulates Biden even when Biden has 253 electoral votes, while Trump has 214 electoral votes.
“Congratulations @JoeBiden,” said Frank Bainimarama via a joke on his Twitter account, quoted on Sunday (8/11/2020).
“Now more than ever, we need the United States to lead this multilateral effort (and get back to the #Paris Accord, ASAP!) -[as soon as possible]”Added the leader of the Pacific nation.
Fiji, a South Pacific island nation that has been dramatically affected by the climate crisis. Fiji also became the first country in the world to officially ratify the Paris Agreement (Paris Agreement) on climate change in 2016.
Earlier this week, the United States became the first country to formally withdraw from the Paris Agreement. If elected, Biden promised to rejoin the landmark agreement as soon as possible.
Paris Agreement constitutes a treaty of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on greenhouse gas emissions mitigation, adaptation and finance.
This agreement will enter into force in 2020. This agreement was negotiated by 195 country representatives at the 21st United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, France.
Formerly, US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, he delivered his victory speech. Biden predicting victory in the US presidential election because the vote count is skewed towards the major states.
“The numbers tell us … it’s a clear and compelling story: we will win this competition,” he said. Biden, Friday night from his home state of Delaware.
Biden he said, he and his partner Kamala Harris was already meeting with experts as they prepared to begin their administrative process on January 20.
Trump is not in sight at the White House on Friday and does not have a public schedule for Saturday. He said in a statement issued by the team the bell that “all valid ballots must be counted and all illegal ballots must not be counted,” while the Democrats are accused of rejecting the call.
However, the US Election Commission said that this time there was no evidence of fraud in the US presidential election.
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