Posted on 03/30/2025 9:00:07 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is making plans to seek reelection and restore elections in his country, as his ratings climbed after his contentious White House meeting with President Donald Trump, according to a new report.
The Economist, quoting Ukrainian government sources, reported Sunday that Zelenskyy called a meeting last week to discuss organizing a vote after a full ceasefire, expected by the American side in late April, is reached with Russia.
This means the Ukrainians could confirm an election before or by May 5, the deadline for a parliamentary vote on whether to extend martial law in the nation, which will expire on May 8.
After that, sources in the country say Zelenskyy is aiming for an election in the summer. Under Ukrainian law, at least 60 days are required for campaigning, putting the earliest election date in early July.
Other sources, though, say the campaign will have to go on for at least three months, the time election authorities have told the Ukrainian Parliament that is required to reconstitute voter lists at a time of war.
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He’s a dictator. No wonder the left loves him.
He’s not a dictator. He agreed to hold elections in July in his negotiations with President Trump.
He’s a dictator. He suspended elections. Outlawed his opponents. Shut down news outlets. Persecuted religious.
Alrighty, then.
They just need to get him within CIA-cheatable numbers.
So just WHERE did Zelensky take that pole?
My bet the local Ukranian Cemetery. ALL the dead voted for Zelensky.
Just like the DEAD here Vote Democrat!!!
You know its going bad over there when these pri”ks show up en mass and spread their propaganda.
Every time the Ukies get their clocks cleaned they show up.
Newsmax irrationally believes that the further Zelensky drives the Ukraine into the grave, and refuses to allow negotiations or elections, the more popular he is with the public!?
Hitler was popular in Germany.
If anyone said anything wrong...
NAZI Ideology (Banderite) controls Ukraine.
Putin wanted Ukrainian elections and now he doesn’t.
And now President Trump is pissed.
So much “magic thinking” in one post...
Even Zelensky's number one opponent, Poroshenko is against holding wartime elections.
Simple answer is that during wartime elections, Zelensky will probably win another 5 year term as people generally "rally around the flag" during wartime. Opponents want the elections after the war, feeling they have a better chance of wining. Good example of a similar situation is Winston Churchill, who lost elections after the war.
Ukrainian opposition leaders dismiss idea of wartime election Mar 6, 2025
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-opposition-leaders-dismiss-idea-wartime-election-2025-03-06/
Putin screwed up yet again by pissing off President Trump.
You are correct.
He is a DICTATOR.
The grifter declared martial law on February 24, 2022, knowing THE Ukraine’s constitution mandates that elections cannot go ahead until any declaration of martial law is lifted.
Of course the media and zeepers conveniently leave out a little fact about the Ukie elections.
The duration of martial law in THE Ukraine has to be extended every 90 days.
The little griftig midget and his regime had approved and signed a extention 13 time !!!!
The latest one was signed from February 8 for another 90 days, until May 9, 2025.
Knowing THE Ukraine’s constitution mandates that elections cannot go ahead until any declaration of martial law is lifted, he kept signing extension after extension, holding THE Ukraine hostage and refusing to relinquish power.
He has upgraded himself to a DICTATOR!
Zelensky agreed to hold elections during the most recent negotiations with the U.S. That’s why Putin was making the crazy eyes and babbling nonsense in Murmansk about UN takeover of Ukraine and BRICS joining the ceasefire talks last week.
Zelensky agreed not to extend martial law in his negotiations with President Trump.
So Winston Churchill was a "DICTATOR!" during WW2 when England suspended elections? England did not have its country occupied, like Ukraine, with million of its citizens abroad.
The UK postponed its scheduled 1940 general elections due to World War II, maintaining a wartime coalition government. A general election was only held in 1945, once military victory was secured and governance could return to democratic norms.
Ukraine will keep shrinking and/or cease to exist as long as Zelensky is in power.
Tell Putin to get with the program and stop pissing off President Trump.
So, you disagree with Trump when he said Zelensky was a dictator?
He absolutely is.
Zelensky has cancelled elections, imprisoned opposition leaders, banned opposition parties, imprisoned and murdered dissents like American citizen Gonzalo Lira, destroyed churches and rounded up conscripts against their will and sent them to the frontlines to die.
Anyone not willing to admit Ukraine is a tyrannical hellhole is pathetic excuse of human being.
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