Midterm election results, reactions to Trump's defeat around the world

Those who were watching tonight's vote with particular attention, fearing above all for the unpredictable moves of the American president, were undoubtedly Iran, which was among the first to officially react to the result which sanctioned the conquest of Congress by the Democrats.

“Out of conscience or the cost of life, the Americans said NO TO WAR, and we support this message,” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Tehran Parliament and chief negotiator in the talks between Iran and the United States, wrote in X. "If the US government betrays the will of its public opinion to serve its international masters and blackmailers" - he added - it will discover that our NO will be accompanied by a nightmare".

China, for its part, said it was "willing to continue to cooperate" with the United States. The spokeswoman of the Foreign Ministry, Mao Ning, reiterated this during a briefing. “The midterm elections are an internal matter in the United States,” he said. "Beijing - underlined the spokeswoman - is willing to continue working with the USA to support and implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen communication, adequately manage differences, expand cooperation and build a constructive and strategically stable Sino-US relationship, based on the principles of respect, fairness and reciprocity".

Former President Barack Obama also celebrated the overwhelming victory of the Democrats. “The Americans sent a clear message,” he said. "They want a politics that unites rather than divides and leaders capable of offering concrete solutions." “These results were possible because exceptional candidates stepped forward,” Obama added. “While this administration still has two years left in its term, our job now is to roll up our sleeves, make changes where we have the power, avoid further harm, and lay the foundation for the future,” he noted.

In Italy, among the first to congratulate the Democrats' success was former Prime Minister and leader of Italia Viva Matteo Renzi. "The United States demonstrates today that hope can defeat fear. From Texas to Kansas, from Michigan to Georgia, democracy gives us a page of surprises and beauty", wrote Renzi on X. "The American dream returns to represent a light for the whole world. It's just the beginning, it will be long, but this is the right path. As Senator Talarico said, tonight David defeated Goliath. Good morning, today is a really good day!"

"I am not American, I am not an American voter and we must respect the verdict of the polls" and "the vote of the Americans", Jordan Bardella, president of Rassemblement National, declared to RTL. Speaking about the foreign policy of the Trump administration, of the tycoon's second term in the White House, he said he was convinced "there is undoubtedly a link" between the outcome of the vote and "the American intervention in Iran", which "has "very serious consequences for the American economy, as well as for the European one".

Elon Musk's comment was bitter, choosing irony after his endorsement the day before in favor of Republicans. “Looks like my space lasers to interfere with the election didn't work this time,” Musk wrote on X. In another post, published almost simultaneously, he wrote sarcastically: "Data centers in space look really attractive right now."