On a separate note, at an online meeting I attended earlier today - addressed by the German federal health minister, - the words "president-elect" were used, quite naturally, in the course of his remarks.
Whatever about the capacity for cognitive (and democratic, and electoral) awareness in the current tainted administration, most of the rest of the civilised world knows who has been validly elected to office.
And, while the OSCE/ODIHR Preliminary Findings & Remarks - invariably issued the day after an election that they have observed, is what generally tends to grab the world's headlines - whereas the Final Report, published around six to ten weeks later, is usually a sober, serious, analytical assessment coupled with thoughtful recommendations (usually dusted off by the host government with an appalled shriek around the time preparations for the next election are about to commence, with a belated realisation that they haven't carried out any of these recommendations, whereupon the easiest, least inconvenient, one or or two of these, are then hastily implemented so that they can show "willing" to the International Community), this year, I think I am able to predict, without having to have recourse to animal entrails, helpful herbs, or astrology, that the Final Report on the US elections will make for very interesting reading.
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