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Barack Obama says facilitating peaceful transition is the 'essence of democracy'

Published 16 November 2020, 4:17 am
Barack Obama has spoken about US President Donald Trump's delay to concede defeat to Joe Biden in the presidential election. The former US President said that accepting the role of US president as a 'temporary job' and that it's 'not above the law' is 'the essence of democracy'.
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