The Senate and House of Representatives of the US Congress officially certified Democratic Candidate Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election held on November 3, last year. Congress initially attempted to complete the certification yesterday, but it resumed late at night after a meeting was interrupted once in an unprecedented event in which President Trump supporters broke into the Capitol. Reporter Ahn So-young delivers.
In the early morning of the 7th, Congress officially certified Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s election to the 46th presidential election.
Congress confirmed the election of Biden, who secured more than 306 of the 538 electoral votes, shortly after the House and Senate each completed a 50-state certification process in the United States.
Vice President Mike Pence, who held the meeting in the capacity of Senate Chairman, declared that Biden had completed all official procedures and was elected legitimate president shortly after Vermont’s election results were certified.
[녹취: 펜스 부통령]
According to the U.S. Constitution, the Senate and House of Representatives confirm the election of Biden and Vice President Camela Harris.
With this, biden’s election was officially confirmed 64 days after the presidential election was held on November 3, last year.
Congress initially tried to certify Biden’s election at a joint Senate and House meeting on the 6th, but this afternoon, supporters of President Donald Trump, who disagree with the election results, broke into the Capitol and the schedule was interrupted.
They protested across Washington, DC with stars and stripes and pickets with President Trump’s name on them, and then marched to Congress when the Senate and House joint meetings took place, taking over the halls.
Congressmen, including Vice President Pence and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who were conducting the meeting, evacuated urgently, and a curfew was imposed in Washington, DC from 6 p.m. that day.
The federal legislature’s verification of the results of each of the 50 US electoral votes is the last official legal process left for Biden to take office.
After the certification was completed, Vice President Pence said, “Violence never wins,” and “Freedom wins.”
Prior to this, Biden-elect strongly criticized the intrusion into the Capitol.
Biden, who held a press conference in Wilmington, Delaware, said democracy is under unprecedented attack.
[녹취: 바이든 당선인] “The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect a true America, do not represent who we are. What we are seeing are a small number of extremist, dedicated the lawlessness.”
The chaos scene in the Capitol is not of the United States, it is the lawless act of minority extremists who do not represent Americans.
Biden said the act was an attack on the holy US Congress, carrying out the mandate of the people, and called for President Trump to immediately stop violent riots among his supporters in a television speech.
As protests intensified, President Trump posted a video on his Twitter calling for the dissolution of the protesters.
[녹취: 트럼프 대통령]”I know you are in pain, I know you are hurt. We had an election that was stolen from us. Everyone knows it, but you have to home now.”
They know the pain and hurt of their supporters, and everyone knows it’s a stolen election, but now is the time to go home.
President Trump stressed the need to maintain peace and follow law and order.
In the past two months after the presidential election, President Trump has always disapproved of the results.
Even just before the accreditation meeting was held that day, Vice President Pence was pressured to declare disapproval in Congress.
[녹취: 트럼프 대통령] “If Mike Pence does the right thing we win the election.”
In a gathering of thousands of supporters, Vice President Pence insisted that if he did the right thing, he would win the election.
But when Vice President Pence started a joint meeting and said he had no constitutional power to overturn voters’ decisions, President Trump accused him of not having the courage to do what he had to do to protect the United States and the Constitution. .
Biden won the last presidential election by securing 306 of the 538 electoral corps, far more than 270, a majority.
In particular, they won all the competition states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Nevada, which are the keys to victory.
However, President Trump has filed a series of lawsuits against the election results, arguing that increased stamp votes in the aftermath of the novel coronavirus could manipulate the election results.
In particular, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s private attorney, filed a constitutional complaint with the Federal Supreme Court stating that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to vote by mail was unconstitutional, but these cases were dismissed in court.
Amidst the extremely unusual circumstances surrounding the results of the presidential election in the US constitutional history, the Federal Public Procurement Service (GSA) officially recognized Biden as the winner of the presidential election on November 23, 20 days after the election.
As a result, the procedure for the takeover of the regime officially began, and Biden’s side announced the appointment of the cabinet one after another to speed up the preparation for inauguration.
Biden has nominated former Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blincoln as Secretary of State and Jake Sullivan as National Security Advisor at the White House.
In addition, Alejandro Mallorkas, the first Hispanic head of the Department of Homeland Security, was appointed as the first Deputy Minister of Homeland Security.
Biden’s inauguration of the 46th President of the United States will be held in front of the Capitol in Washington, DC on the 20th.
This is VOA News Ahn So-young.