Washington. The elected US President Joe Biden (78) and the elected Vice President Kamala Harris (56) have been named People of the Year by Time Magazine. The rock superstar Bruce Springsteen (71) announced on Thursday evening (local time) on NBC. “Time” editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said, referring to the two award winners: “The next four years will be an enormous test for them and for all of us to see whether they can bring about the unity they have promised.”
In the presidential election on November 3, the Democrat Biden had won against the Republican incumbent Donald Trump. Trump has so far refused to acknowledge his defeat. In the election campaign, Biden had advertised, among other things, that he wanted to overcome the deep division in the USA. Biden and Harris are due to be sworn in on January 20th in Washington. In brief reactions on the show, Biden and Harris thanked them for the honor.
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Last year, the then 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was the youngest person ever to be named Person of the Year by Time Magazine. With the title, the “Time” editorial team has been honoring the personalities of world affairs who have had the greatest impact on the past year since 1927. In 2015 – the year of the refugee crisis – Chancellor Angela Merkel was named Person of the Year.
It became Donald Trump a year later, having recently won the US presidential election. In 2018, among others, the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was named Person of the Year together with other reporters. In the past, Queen Elizabeth II, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nelson Mandela as well as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin were among those honored. (dpa)
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