US congress are set to meet on Wednesday to confirm Joe Biden's victory in the presidential election in the midst of protests from President Donald Trump's supporters. A joint session of Congress will count and confirm electoral college votes, reports an international news agency.
Some Republicans have pledged to support Trump's efforts to overturn the result by formally objecting at the session, in a bid that is almost a failure attempt.
Biden, a Democrat, is all set to be inaugurated as United States president on January 20. The two houses of Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate will hold a joint session on Wednesday, where they will open the sealed certificates from the US' 50 states containing a record of their electoral votes. According to the US electoral system, voters cast their ballots for Under "electors", who in turn formally vote for the candidates weeks after the election. Biden received 306 votes under the electoral college system, to Trump's 232.
Bipartisan representatives from the two chambers will read out the results in the sealed cover on Wednesday and do an official count. There is a split in the Republican party, with dozens of House Republicans and a smaller group of Senators expected to object to the count from some of the key swing states. By US election law, Mike Pence, president of the Senate's duty in the proceedings is purely administrative, but Trump has urged his vice-president to "come through".
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