David McAllister message on US Election
David McAllister, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and chair of its committee on foreign affairs, has stressed that it is important that “all votes count and that means that all votes will be counted” in the US election.
He urged “all parties accept the result and that there will be no further turbulences” once the process is complete.
The US president asking for some voting counts to stop is unprecedented, McAllister said.
“You cannot deprive US citizens of the right to vote,” he said. “You cannot announce yourself as the winner of an election while the counting is still ongoing. This is unprecedented.”
McAllister said he sees a “new impetus for transatlantic relations” should Joe Biden prevail in the election, but warned that there were still challenges ahead on trade, security and defence issues.
In the event of the president’s re-election, he said: “We know what we can expect from Mr Trump, but we also know what we cannot expect from him – and the transatlantic relations have been put to a stress test like we’ve never seen before in the last 70 years.”
