LONDON — With the contest over, world leaders and high-ranking officials are reacting to the emerging results of the 2024 presidential elections.

with the former president Donald Trump French President Emmanuel Macron, who was well ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House race and declared victory, offered his congratulations to Trump after X.

“We are ready to work together, as we have done for four years,” Macron said, referring to Trump’s first term. “With your beliefs and mine. With respect and ambition. For greater peace and prosperity.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated both Trump and his wife Melania. “Congratulations on the greatest comeback in history,” Netanyahu wrote to X. “Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a strong commitment to the grand alliance between Israel and America.”

“This is a huge victory,” Netanyahu said.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a longtime conservative ally of Trump, sent X a post early Wednesday celebrating what he called “the greatest comeback in U.S. political history.” Orban congratulated Trump on his “tremendous victory”, which he described as “a victory that the world desperately needs”.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto wrote on Facebook that he hoped “Hungarian-American political cooperation will return to its peak because we have similar thoughts on peace, illegal immigration and the protection of families.”

“And after almost a thousand days, the chances of peace in Ukraine are higher than ever,” Szijjarto added.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised what he called Trump’s “impressive election victory.” In a post on X, he wrote that leaders in Kiev “look forward to an era of a strong United States under the determined leadership of President Trump.” “We are confident in the continued strong bipartisan support for Ukraine in the United States.”

“I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the ‘peace through strength’ approach to global affairs,” Zelenskyy said. he said. “This is exactly the principle that can bring a just peace in Ukraine closer in practice. I believe that we will implement this together.”

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Trump’s leadership “will once again be key to keeping our alliance strong.” “I look forward to working with him again to strengthen peace through NATO,” he added.

“Good work, Mr. President,” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni wrote to X.

“Italy and the United States are ‘sister’ nations bound by an unshakable alliance, shared values ​​and a historic friendship.” he wrote. “This is a strategic bond that I am sure we will now strengthen even further.”

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova sent X a video of Harris singing a hymn during the campaign. “Crying may last a night, but joy comes in the morning,” Harris said in the video.

“Thank God, I will add it on my own,” Zakharova wrote.

Former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote on Telegram that Trump “has one quality that is useful to us: as a businessman at heart, he absolutely does not like to spend money on various sycophants and “stupid allies”” and suggested his election to Ukraine American aid may be blocked.

“The question is how much Trump will have to give for the war,” Medvedev wrote. “He is stubborn, but the system is stronger.”

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