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The United States Congress began on Wednesday the process of validating the result of the presidential election. Vice President Mike Pence has begun the counting process. So far a formality, this procedure is closely followed in the context in which Donald Trump tries by all means to reverse the result of the election won by Joe Biden with 306 votes against 232.
Vice President Mike Pence was removed from the Capitol area
UPDATE 21.45 Vice President Mike Pence was reportedly evacuated from the Capitol building after armed protesters entered the building. Armed clashes are currently taking place between protesters and law enforcement, according to various reports in the US press.
Washington DC is under siege and the Capitol building is closed
UPDATE 21.37 Local authorities in Washington DC have entered the city site. The Capitol building is now closed.
Donald Trump continues to instigate Twitter
UPDATE 21.30 Donald Trump posted a new message on Twitter criticizing Mike Pence and saying that he “did not have the courage to do the right thing.”
“Mike Pence did not have the courage to do what was necessary to protect our country and the Constitution, to give states the opportunity to validate a correct set of facts, not fraudulent and incorrect. America is asking for the truth! ”Trump wrote on Twitter.
UPDATE 21.20 Donald Trump supporters managed to break through the protective fences and barricades and entered the Capitol building. The cameras debating Arizona voters took a break during the chaos before returning to plenary. Some of the protesters carried flags of the Confederacy, the slave state formed during the American Civil War (1861-1865).
UPDATE 20.45.2018 Shortly before the start of the joint session of Congress, Vice President Mike Pence announced that he would not violate his constitutional role in helping Trump. In a statement to his colleagues in Congress, he said he did not have the authority to reject votes from the Electoral College and that he did not intend to go beyond his formal role.
Votes in the first states, Alabama and Alaska, were counted without objection, but Rep. Paul Gosar and Senator Ted Cruz raised the first objection, to the scrutiny of the Arizona state votes, won by Joe Biden. The two houses of Congress withdrew to debate the objection, before voting and returning to joint session to determine how the procedure would continue.
“Some believe that I, as vice president, can unilaterally accept or reject the votes of the Electoral College. Others believe that votes should never be challenged by the joint session of Congress.
After careful study of our Constitution, laws and history, I believe that none of them is correct.
Our founders were very attentive to the possibility of monopolizing power and created a republic based on the separation of powers, on the levers and counterweights enshrined in the United States Constitution.
The inauguration of the vice president with unilateral authority to decide who won the presidential elections is completely contradictory to this philosophy, “wrote Mike Pence in the statement. The vice president also said that his role was purely ceremonial.
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A few hours before the formal validation in Congress of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump asked Mike Pence on Twitter to block the process and annul the result of the election on his own, although this did not it is constitutionally possible. and legal.
Trump falsely claims that “states want to correct their votes” and once again appeals to the conspiracy theories he asserts about the 2020 presidential election.
-The news is updated
Editor: Adrian Dumitru
