{"id":27964,"date":"2026-11-04T12:11:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/seismic-shift-world-reacts-to-us-midterm-election-results-al-jazeera\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:11:55","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:11:55","slug":"seismic-shift-world-reacts-to-us-midterm-election-results-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/seismic-shift-world-reacts-to-us-midterm-election-results-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Seismic shift\u2019: World reacts to US midterm election results &#8211; Al Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/interactive.aljazeera.com\/mapped\/us-election-2026\/aje\/widget120.html\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120px\" data-aspect-ratio=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/><em>Iran\u2019s top negotiator says US voters sent a \u201cNO TO WAR\u201d message, as Trump\u2019s Democratic opponents take Congress.<\/em><br \/>Save<br \/>Share<br \/>Democrats in the United States have scored a major victory in midterm elections, taking control of both chambers of Congress in a stinging rebuke of President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.<br \/>The results are being carefully watched outside the US, as foreign leaders consider how the new political reality in Washington could affect US foreign policy \u2013 from the conflict with Iran to the Russia-Ukraine war and trade relations.<br \/>Trump himself has acknowledged the <a href=\"\/news\/liveblog\/2026\/11\/4\/iran-war-live-tehran-prepares-maximum-deterrence-plan-for-any-new-attack\">US-Israel war on Iran<\/a> likely impacted his party\u2019s poor performance in the elections, saying voters were probably not ready \u201cfor the short-term consequence of the price of gasoline\u201d.<br \/>Here are the latest reactions from world leaders, as the scale of the Democratic victory continues to emerge:<br \/>Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who is also the chief negotiator in talks with the US, said voters had rejected conflict.<br \/>\u201cAmericans said NO TO WAR, and we endorse this message,\u201d wrote Ghalibaf in a post on X.<br \/>\u201cIf the US govt betrays their public will to serve international paymasters and blackmailers, it will learn our NO comes with a Nightmare,\u201d he added.<br \/>Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, meanwhile, said partisan shifts in Washington would not alter the US\u2019s \u201chostility\u201d towards Tehran.<br \/>\u201cIf there are still those who harbour even the slightest hope that the behaviour of the hegemonic system could change through party or factional shifts, or who believe that making concessions to the US could persuade it to abandon its hostility towards the Iranian people, they are gravely mistaken,\u201d said Khamenei in a statement shared by Iranian state media.<br \/>There was no immediate reaction from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a Trump ally <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/11\/1\/israel-election-when-will-government-be-formed-who-will-lead-it\">whose coalition lost its own majority<\/a> in Israel\u2019s parliament in elections last week.<br \/>However, opposition figure Yair Golan, whose party is in a <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/11\/3\/israeli-opposition-leaders-back-eisenkot-to-oust-netanyahu\">coalition seeking to replace Netanyahu<\/a>, said the US vote reveals \u201cjust how toxic Netanyahu has become\u201d among US Democrats and Republicans alike.<br \/>He warned that if Netanyahu and his far-right government remain in power, Israel would be on \u201ca path toward international sanctions, global isolation, and a confrontation with the United States \u2013 our most important friend and ally.\u201d<br \/>Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, also part of the anti-Netanyahu coalition, said the US vote effectively ruled out \u201cany possibility of a unity government led by Netanyahu\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>European Parliament Vice President Christel Schaldemose said the US results left her \u201ccautiously optimistic on Europe\u2019s behalf\u201d.<br \/>\u201cNot because everything now \u2060\u2060changes for the better, but because it could benefit the support for Ukraine, the green transition, and \u2060\u2060relations with the rest of the world,\u201d said Schaldemose in a post on X.<br \/>\u201cBut the EU must continue the course of standing stronger and standing on its own two feet. That\u2019s not up for debate,\u201d she added.<br \/>Health Minister James Frith stressed that the UK would maintain steady, strong ties with Washington despite an apparent \u201cseismic shift in domestic politics for the Americans\u201d.<br \/>\u201cThe change of emphasis of power in the States is frequent,\u201d Frith told British media. \u201cBut the mainstay of the relationship with the UK Government, as its closest ally, is unwavering and unchanging.\u201d<br \/>\u201cSo I don\u2019t expect it to change the nature of the relationship at all; it remains very strong,\u201d he added.<br \/>Finance Minister Roland Lescure said France would wait to see whether Trump, who remains in control of US foreign policy, adjusts his approach.<br \/>\u201cEither he decides to rise above the fray \u2013 acknowledging that \u200c\u200cchanges are necessary, particularly regarding gasoline prices, which directly \u200c\u200caffect people \u2013 and, I might add, he tones down his international involvement, or he does not,\u201d Lescure told French TV. \u201cFrankly, this is something we will need to keep an eye on in the \u2060\u2060coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Left-wing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said the US Democrats\u2019 landslide victory was emblematic of the \u201cunravelling\u201d of the global far right.<br \/>\u201cIt happened in Brazil. It just happened in the US. And it will soon happen in Spain,\u201d said Sanchez, whose own <a href=\"\/news\/2026\/10\/5\/spanish-prime-minister-pedro-sanchez-announces-snap-election\">premiership is at stake<\/a> in snap elections he called for November 29 .<br \/>Sanchez said US voters had rejected policies that \u201conly \u200c\u200cimpoverish\u201d, as well as hate, sexism, climate change denialism and \u201cthe privileges of the elites\u201d.<br \/>Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis said US-Greek relations would not be affected by the election results.<br \/>\u201cGreek-American relations will remain strong,\u201d he told local media. \u201cThe United States is our strategic ally, and this will continue for major projects \u2060\u2060and all major agreements. Nothing will be affected by this outcome. It is obvious that we respect every outcome. The conclusions are clear.\u201d<br \/>Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stressed the need to wait for the final results of US elections to come into focus, but noted that leaders in the US Democratic Party had a \u201csharply negative\u201d approach to relations with Moscow.<br \/>Russia\u2019s position on Ukraine and broader foreign policy \u201cis not based on short-term considerations and, naturally, does not depend on the fluctuations of the political barometer in other countries,\u201d Ryabkov was quoted by Russian state media as saying.<br \/>\u201cWe will continue our work in accordance with the directives of the President of the Russian Federation,\u201d he added.<br \/>Kremlin spokesman \u2060Dmitry Peskov said Moscow hoped the US midterm results would not impact Trump\u2019s \u201cpeacemaking efforts\u201d.<br \/>Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said Beijing would continue its \u201cconstructive strategic relationship\u201d with the US, stressing that US elections are a \u201cdomestic affair\u201d.<br \/>\u201cChina is willing to work with the US to safeguard and implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen communication, properly manage differences and expand cooperation, build a constructive strategic relationship based on respect and equality,\u201d Mao told reporters in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said whatever the outcome of the US vote, \u201cthe Japan-US alliance the is the cornerstone of Japan\u2019s foreign and security policy.\u201d<br \/>\u201cAs the international situation becomes turbulent and increasingly uncertain, a strong Japan-US alliance is essential for maximising Japan\u2019s national interests and for peace and stability in the international community,\u201d Kihara said at a press briefing.<br \/>\u2060President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has clashed with Trump over the US president\u2019s promotion of <a href=\"\/news\/2025\/5\/22\/fact-check-do-trumps-white-genocide-claims-to-ramaphosa-hold-up\">debunked claims of a white genocide<\/a> in South Africa, said the election marks \u201ca new era in world relations\u201d.<br \/>\u201cWe have seen that the \u2060\u2060Democrats have taken \u2060\u2060control of the Senate and of \u2060\u2060the House, and \u2060\u2060the \u2060\u2060people of America have spoken,\u201d Ramaphosa told \u200c\u200creporters.<\/p>\n<p>Follow Al Jazeera English:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxQcmlQcUFmZnRoZzJhRmFYd0JkMXhYU3kyLWxqOV9uYnlUeEVkdGRCZDhXZEhMYkJ6eHI0TUs1T05rSXJEc01PbUJYU2dXczhsYW4zVGJSUlNqTF9ENEY0anRkcGlIMy1na3N2NlpSTHdreGNtaHM3NWRRZkd3UUJJQzVrX2pIQ0luMko4Rk9MWk5XQXlhWG1UeFJNRUVYNnPSAaQBQVVfeXFMUHdnaUVOZEx4S2F3ZTJnVTZLUmM5Z1RpRE9fSG9DWDNOZTEyNEdkU3NkZ3NIMGdLdEpFaXZRNWxTbDU1OEQ2WUpwbUx5WEsyb1lKcWRYcHU4T3k1N1huTWpCQWpPeThQVXE4LXZQU09mMTZFcE5pWnQ1TTR4TnRqNDBJZXBMTmFRNWJJYVJwNllheXZDSXBiUzQxMzhVcUZEVG1lS3M?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s top negotiator says US voters sent a \u201cNO TO WAR\u201d message, as Trump\u2019s Democratic opponents take Congress.SaveShareDemocrats in the United States have scored a major victory in midterm elections, taking control of both chambers of Congress in a stinging rebuke of President Donald Trump and his Republican Party.The results are being carefully watched outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}