German President Joachim Gauck tells Der Spiegel he is worried about the prospect of Donald Trump winning the race for the White House, citing the US Republican hopeful’s “unpredictability” as a cause for concern.
“We can’t say what could be expected from a President Donald Trump,” Gauck tells the German magazine in an interview published today. “To me, and to many people in the United States and here at home, this constitutes a problem.”
With just two days to go in a closely fought election that is being watched around the world, Gauck adds: “When I look at Washington, I am worried.”
German President Joachim Gauck on April 23, 2015 (Photo credit: Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
The German president, whose role is largely ceremonial, says he hopes “that American democracy, which does not allow the president to act as an autocrat, that the system of checks and balances, of mutual control” of power would be maintained.
The latest major survey, the ABC/Washington Post tracker released early Sunday, gives Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton a five- percentage point 48-43 lead over Trump. Polling averages, however, are closer.
— AFP
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