Posted on 11/07/2023 8:50:07 AM PST by bitt
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is up for re-election in the spring, announced on Monday that he has suspended his country’s 2024 election.
Zelnskyy said in a speech to his country’s citizens that due to its ongoing war against Russia, it is “not the right time for elections.”
While he had previously not ruled out the possibility of an election in March, The Hill reported, Monday he called for Ukrainian citizens to support him.
To wrap up his video address to his country, he said: “And finally, the waves of any politically divisive things must stop. We must realize that now is the time of defense, the time of the battle that determines the fate of the state and people, not the time of manipulations, which only Russia expects from Ukraine.
“I believe that now is not the right time for elections.”
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Zelenskyy, who was elected to his first five-year term in 2019, concluded that election season for now is a time for “unity.”
“And if we need to put an end to a political dispute and continue to work in unity, there are structures in the state that are capable of putting an end to it and giving society all the necessary answers,” he said. “So that there is no room left for conflicts and someone else’s game against Ukraine.”
He did not say when another election would be held.
Ukraine is currently under a state of martial law and has been since the February 2022 invasion of its territory by Russia.
The official cancellation of Ukraine’s 2024 presidential election comes days after Zelenskyy told NBC’s Kristen Welker during an interview that he wields “a lot of power” amid his country’s ongoing war.
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You have to cancel elections to save Democracy, the people understand 😆
Next year's headline:
Approaching End of Term, Biden Cancels Next Election: ‘Not the Right Time’
Well son of a bitch......
Biden’s salivating.
Where are all the hand-wringers who swore that Trump would do this, which meant total destruction of ‘democracy’ in our country? And that we need to send ‘as much as it takes, as long as it takes’ to preserve ‘democracy’ in Ukraine?
What a bunch of f***ed up idiot a**holes.
Leftist politicians, media personalities, influencers, and assorted grovelers are going to plead to Biden to suspend elections in America.
“Great idea,” says Potato Head Joe. “I just need a big enough crisis.”
Just kidding. Even Lincoln held elections during the Civil War. But the North was winning at that point (1864). What if the South was occupying a large part of the Union states at that time?
Obama’s fourth term?
He should run in the GOP Primary. 🕺🏻
Interpretation: No elections because Ukrainians are sick of this stupid war and they'd throw him out of office.
It will never be the right time for Zel the dicktaster clown
Where are the usual suspects who defended this in the past?
American taxpayers need to send $billions to Ukraine to save democracy in Ukraine.
Democracy = no elections = Zelenskyy is a dictator just like Putin.
they had elections in the east in September. Zelensky droned the polling station
Lincoln didn’t cancel the presidential election and it was during a Civil War
I never could have seen this coming.
So shocked I am. NOT
“This is fine.”
-Zeeper Dude
...”..What a bunch of f***ed up idiot a**holes.”
oh, come on....tell us how you REALLY feel.....??!!
seriously, the time to pull the plug on our sending billions of hard-earned Americans’ tax dollars to this fraud has long passed...it is like pouring dollars down a drain....but this penis-piano-playing dictator won’t even talk about any kind of peace talks.....shameful....
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