Advisory Group: The 2024 US election is the biggest risk to the world

The Eurasian Risk Analysis Advisory Group has said that the US presidential election will bring the greatest political risk to the world in this year 2024, regardless of who wins, due to the misuse of the institutions of the world's most powerful democracy.

Jan 9, 2024 - 15:25
Advisory Group: The 2024 US election is the biggest risk to the world
Advisory Group: The 2024 US election is the biggest risk to the world

 In its annual report released yesterday, Monday, the Institute for Political Risk Analysis said that the November 5, 2024 presidential election "will test American democracy on a scale the nation has not seen in 150 years," hinting at a civil war. . It added: "The US is already the most fragmented and dysfunctional industrial democracy in the world and the 2024 election will exacerbate this problem no matter who wins." The report said that if Donald Trump, who is currently the most likely candidate for the Republican party, loses again to the current President Joe Biden, the billionaire will again claim that there has been a massive fraud and "incite a campaign of intimidation against officials and administrators of the election." Post-election violence in the United States The report added that, if Biden wins a second term, Americans may also face an "unprecedented political crisis" if Donald Trump is jailed in one of the many cases facing him. And if Trump wins, the group expects that Biden will accept defeat, but many Democrats will also see Trump as an illegitimate leader, and others will refuse to confirm his victory, relying on articles of the Constitution, which prohibit anyone "engaging in rebellion" from holding the position.