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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Ryu Ji-bok = The US Congress is expected to controversy over the confirmation of the election of President-elect Joe Biden on the 6th (local time).
However, since the Democratic Party, the father-elect of Biden’s father, has been in cover and the Republican Party has not maintained a tumultuous situation, observations that it will end with a final confirmation of Biden’s victory are dominant.
According to the political media The Hill, 11 Republican senators, including Ted Cruz, announced a statement that they would oppose the results of the electoral vote, which Biden-elect won, at a joint meeting of the Senate and House of Representatives on the 6th.
Biden-elect won the 11·3 presidential election to elect the electoral corps, and also won the weekly electoral corps vote on the 14th of last month with 306 vs. 232 people, consistent with the presidential election results.
Immediately after the presidential election, President Trump insisted on unfair elections, demanded various recounts and filed a lawsuit, but this is the result of his failure.
The only remaining procedure to determine the elected candidate is a joint Senate-House Meeting on the 6th. The new president will be inaugurated on the 20th after the process of certifying the results of state elections and announcing the winners at the meeting.
However, at the meeting that day, lawmakers may object to the results of the state elections vote, and some Republican lawmakers announced their intention to proceed with this process.
At least one congressman and one senator must agree to a vote on whether the objection is accepted, debate, and verifies the state’s vote results.
In the current House of Representatives, Republican Mo Brooks announced earlier that he would raise an objection, and Republican Senator Josh Howley also confirmed his intention to join on the 30th of last month.
In the midst of this, eleven Republican senators expressed their intention to agree on this day.
They demanded a 10-day emergency audit of the state in which the controversy over the election results took place, saying that if the request is not accepted, they will vote against the election results certification.
Considering the situation where the possibility of accepting the audit request is slim, it is interpreted as a situation in which a battle over the certification of election results at the joint meeting on the 6th is inevitable.
However, foreign media estimates that it is safe to assume that the outcome of Biden’s victory at this meeting is unlikely to be overturned.
In order to invalidate the election results of a particular state, the Senate and House of Representatives will need a majority vote, and the Democratic Party is unlikely to pass in the majority of the House.
In particular, the Republican Party has also failed to form a single stand on this issue.
CNN broadcast reported on the 31st of last month that there was an expectation that at least 140 Republican MPs could vote on the negative side as a result of the presidential election. Although not a small number, it is significantly less than the majority of the 435 members of the House of Representatives.
Moreover, Senate Representative Mitch McConnell, a leader in the Republican Parliament, expressed his opposition to the objection itself at the joint meeting.
This is due to concerns that if some Republican lawmakers vote to certify electoral counts in a situation where it is unlikely that an objection will be accepted due to the distribution of seats, it will create an angle with President Trump.
“The opposition of Republican senators’ accreditation will not change Biden’s victory,” he said, adding that it would create a politically difficult situation for Republicans who must prepare for the 2022 parliamentary elections.
It means that if you vote against the certification, you will agree with President Trump’s claim that it is a fraudulent election, and if you agree with the certification, you will be voting against President Trump.
Vice President Mike Pence, who will preside over the meeting on the 6th, also announced that he would not refuse to verify the results.
When Republican Congressman Louis Gomert filed a lawsuit asking the vice president to choose which votes to reflect in the event that the results of multiple electoral votes were presented at a joint meeting, Vice President Pence argued that he had no decision to change the votes. I passed it on. In fact, the court dismissed Congressman Gourmet’s lawsuit the day before.
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