US election: World leaders who haven't congratulated Biden

bbc ^ | NOVEMBER 9, 2020

[MarvinStinson]

With Biden projected to win the US presidency, many world leaders hastened to congratulate him.

But some have been conspicuous in their absence.

Some have gone further, backing unsubstantiated Trump made about voter fraud.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

Four years ago Mr Putin was among the first to congratulate Trump on his election victory, but there has been no message to Biden this time.

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the reason was the legal challenges being launched by the Trump campaign.

Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa

Mr Jansa has repeated allegations of voter fraud carried out by Democrats.

Mr Trump's wife Melania is Slovenian.

Estonian Interior Minister Mart Helme

Mr Helme made allegations about widespread fraud in the US election and repeated unsubstantiated corruption allegations against Biden and his son Hunter.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro\

Bolsonaro is often considered to be an ally of Trump, so much so that he has been described as the "Trump of the Tropics".

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

The Mexican leader said he would wait for "all legal issues" to be resolved.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

While Netanyahu congratulated Mr Biden, observers have noted the absence of the words "president-elect" and "vice-president-elect" in his message.

Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

The Saudi crown prince has congratulated Mr Biden on his election victory - but only on Sunday, 24 hours after the news broke.

Chinese President Xi Jinping

China has held off on giving any reaction to the US election results.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Beijing would watch while "US law and procedures" were followed.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un

There has been no response to the election result from Mr Kim.

The North Korean leader has called Mr Biden "a fool of low IQ".

[LibertyWoman]

Tweet: Congratulations @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris. Joe, we’ve had a long & warm personal relationship for nearly 40 years, and I know you as a great friend of Israel. I look forward to working with both of you to further strengthen the special alliance between the U.S. and Israel.

Tweet 2: (after the above) Thank you @realDonaldTrump for the friendship you have shown the state of Israel and me personally, for recognizing Jerusalem and the Golan, for standing up to Iran, for the historic peace accords and for bringing the American-Israeli alliance to unprecedented heights

This backs up my comment #13. I am not wrong.

[MarvinStinson]

You are dead wrong.

You wrote:

Bibi did congratulate Biden and I do believe used the words President elect.

14 posted on 11/9/2020, 2:22:09 PM by LibertyWoman

[LibertyWoman]

I do believe is not the same as insisting. I also followed up on #13 with more detail. No he didn’t use that term; didn’t call our President President either. You are wrong to act as if this was some kind of a major signal that he isn’t looking at Biden as President elect.