President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the idea of presidential elections in Ukraine next year, labeling the topic as “irresponsible” in his video address posted on Nov. 6.
President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected the idea of presidential elections in Ukraine next year, labeling the topic as “irresponsible” in his video address posted on Nov. 6.
It’s worth some concern but I wouldn’t freak out just yet. The United Kingdom cancelled an election that was due in 1940 because of that trouble going on with Germany at the time, and held the next one on 1945 where they quite soundly kicked out Churchill despite him having been a popular wartime prime minister. So it’s not unprecedented. Ukraine has a bit less of a democratic tradition to give them inertia, sure, but if they want EU membership someday they’re going to have a lot of pressure keeping them on the straight and narrow.
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And significant chunks of the country are under occupation, too, which would make the results hard to interpret even if they held one.