Meanwhile, as the sitting president, Trump retained command and control over both federal law enforcement and US military forces that eventually helped secure the Capitol.
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America’s lame-duck period gave insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump two full months to plan the putsch that briefly occupied the Capitol and forced lawmakers to flee in terror - and they were egged on this entire time by a president who encouraged them to stage a “wild” protest while lawmakers formally certified Biden’s victory on January 6. The dangers of a long lame-duck period have come into stark relief in the wake of last week’s storming of the US Capitol. Japan’s Abe Shinzo, the last Japanese politician to preside over a transition of partisan rule, also took office 10 days after his party won an election. He became prime minister just 10 days later. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party won his election on May 16, 2014. French President Emmanuel Macron won election on May 7, 2017, and was sworn in just one week later. Modern democracies, in other words, can and do transfer power very rapidly - and much faster than the two and a half months that separate President-elect Joe Biden’s election on November 3, 2020, and his inauguration on January 20, 2021, the official transition date established by the 20th Amendment. Just five days after the election, Cameron became prime minister. On May 6, 2010, Britain held its most recent election where control of its government changed partisan hands - voters tossed out the incumbent Labour Party government and replaced it with a coalition led by the Conservative Party’s David Cameron.
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Just over two weeks later, on November 4, Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister.įive years earlier, a very similar series of events played out in Great Britain. On October 19, 2015, Canadians voted to end nearly a decade of Conservative Party government and elect a new government led by Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau.
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