Guest of Europe Evening weekend, the political scientist specializing in the United States Nicole Bacharan deciphers the political consequences of Donald Trump's hospitalization due to coronavirus, exactly one month before the election for the American presidential election.
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The outgoing president and candidate for his own succession Donald Trump was admitted Friday evening to a military hospital "for a few days" after testing positive for the coronavirus.
A real political earthquake, one month before the presidential election of November 3.
But is Donald Trump's hospitalization likely to prevent him, in the event of favorable votes, from taking over his own succession?
In other words, what does the US Constitution provide when a candidate cannot physically stand on election day?
"This is a complex question that has hardly ever arisen,"
Nicole Bacharan,
political scientist specializing in the United States and author of
Le Monde according to Trump
,
explains at the microphone of Europe 1 this Saturday
.
A replacement designated by the leadership of the Republican Party?
From a logistical point of view alone, "the bulletins with the names of Donald Trump and Joe Biden are already printed, and it is out of the question to start all over," says the specialist.
But if Donald Trump is "no longer lucid on D-Day, if he is in a coma, in intensive care or even worse, it is up to the leadership of the Republican Party to take matters into their own hands, for example by bringing together a convention in order to find a replacement for the current tenant of the White House ".
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In this case, "the large Republican voters designated by the Americans to vote for Trump will be able to give their vote to his replacement".
But Nicole Bacharan insists: "It's a very complicated question, and so we can imagine that there would be a lot of pitching."