When Donald Trump won the 2016
U.S. presidential election over Hillary Clinton, Russian leader Vladimir Putin
congratulated him within roughly an hour.
Two days after Democrat Joe Biden
floored Trump, four years after, Putin has not uttered words of
congratulations.
Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov
said on Monday the Russian strongman is waiting for official results before
congratulating a winner.
“We consider it correct to wait
for the official results to be finalized.
“I want to remind you that President Putin repeatedly said he will respect the choice of the American people,” Kremlin spokesman Peskov told reporters in Moscow.
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In contrast, many world leaders
congratulated Biden after he took an insurmountable lead over Donald Trump in
the vote count.
Peskov said that this election
was different because of the legal challenges that Trump, who has refused to
concede defeat, is planning to mount over the vote.
“The difference is quite obvious…
then there were no announcements of legal challenges,” Peskov said.
He added that Moscow was ready to
work with whoever is declared the winner of the US vote.
“We hope that with the next
president of the United States it will be possible to re-establish a dialogue
and together agree on ways to normalise our bilateral relations,” he said.
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Russia was accused of interfering
in the 2016 election to help get Trump elected, in the hope he would take a
softer line with Moscow.
Biden is expected to take a
tougher stand and during the campaign slammed Trump for having “embraced so
many autocrats around the world, starting with Vladimir Putin.”
AFP
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