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The Russian president wants to wait for the official results of the US presidential elections before congratulating the winner of the race for the White House.
“We believe it is right to wait for the official election results. I want to reiterate that President Vladimir Putin repeatedly states that he will respect the choices of the American people,” the Kremlin spokesman said. Dmitry Peskov said during a press conference in Moscow today.
Leaders of many countries have sent messages congratulating President-elect Joe Biden, expressing their desire to cooperate with the new administration after he was determined to win enough electoral votes to become the 46th president of the United States.
President Putin at a meeting in Moscow on November 6. Image: AFP.
President Putin once congratulated candidate Donald Trump just an hour after he was determined to beat his rival Hillary Clinton in the 2016 White House race.
However, a Peskov spokesman said the election is different because of the legal challenges that Trump, who refuses to admit defeat, plans to pursue. “We hope that the next president of the United States will reestablish talks and normalize bilateral relations,” he added.
Russia has been accused of meddling in the 2016 US elections in favor of Trump, but Moscow has repeatedly denied it. President-elect Biden intends to adopt a tougher policy toward Russia. Despite President Trump’s repeated relationship being good with his Putin counterpart, relations between Russia and the United States remain strained over issues such as the annexation of Crimea and others.
On November 7, the US media named Biden the winner of the election and he became president-elect. Major American news agencies have long maintained the tradition of determining the winner of the election, relying on vote count data and analysis by determining a candidate who was unable to keep up with the candidate. members remaining in the number of votes.
However, President Trump has not contacted Biden to admit defeat, nor does he plan to attend the inauguration of the 46th President of the United States. His campaign has carried out many “fraudulent” trials in the state, but most were removed by the judges for lack of evidence.
The leaders of some countries like Mexico and Brazil have yet to congratulate Biden. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on July 11 that it would be “disrespectful” to the US electoral process to send a message of congratulations to Biden before the end of the judicial process of Trump’s electoral campaign. Moving.
Vu anh (According to the AFP)
