It's not surprising that the Biden Regime calls this "defending democracy".
Posted on 06/08/2024 8:11:37 PM PDT by bimboeruption
With his constitutional Presidential mandate expired, the ‘champion for democracy’, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky is facing the discredit by the Russian enemies.
Recently re-elected in a landslide, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s has been repeatedly clear about how Moscow sees the Ukrainian leader as lacking legitimacy.
For the first time, in a press conference in France alongside President Emmanuel Macron, Zelensky addressed the allegations and dismissed them.
Reuters reported:
President Volodymyr Zelensky said his legitimacy is recognized and determined by the Ukrainian people while criticizing that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“‘President Zelensky’s legitimacy is recognized by the people of Ukraine. Our people are free. Putin’s legitimacy is recognized only by comrade Putin’, he told a press conference in Paris.”
As we see, the leader who cancelled elections sees himself as more legitimate than the one who held them and won in a landslide. So it goes.
The Presidential elections in Ukraine were supposed to take place this spring, and by late May, Zelensky’s five-year term of office ended.
Zelensky now is ruling by force of Martial law in his country.
“However, martial law introduced following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 bans any wartime election. The constitution says the president serves until a newly elected one takes office.
Putin claimed several times that Zelensky is illegitimate after his five-year term ended this May.”
Putin says that the only Ukrainian authority Russia recognizes as of now is the speaker of Parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk.
But Western leaders – who are after all Ukraine’s sponsors and handlers – have not questioned Zelensky’s legitimacy.
Zelensky’s response comes days after Putin started claiming that presidential power should be shifted to speaker of Ukraine’s parliament Stefanchuk.
It is perhaps not a great sign that Zelensky is now talking of himself in the third person. Kyiv Independent reported him as saying.: “It is the people of Ukraine who elect him, and I am very grateful for their support. Our people are free. This is what we are fighting for.”
The latest presidential election should have been held on March 31, 2024, with Zelensky’s term would ending on May 20.
Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk also dismissed Putin’s claims about Zelensky’s legitimacy; “Volodymyr Zelensky remains and will remain Ukraine’s president until the end of martial law. All this is in accordance with Ukraine’s Constitution and laws.”
It's not surprising that the Biden Regime calls this "defending democracy".
Is Putin a legitimate president? Was he approved by the people? Did he cheat to become president for life?
Putin is like the democrats in the U.S., who like to accuse others of what they do, and do openly with no shame. Putin is just as shameless.
A cleaner election than our 2020 “election”.
It's really that simple.
What’s left of them, that is.
Well, with creepy Putin, it all depends on which country one is talking about.
Awaiting his comments on the legitimacy of President Kim of North Korea, Xi of China, Khamenei of Iran, and of course his best pals in the leadership of Hamas plus Mahmoud Abbas of the PA.
Churchill had to wait until WWII ended before an election could take place in the UK.
>>>>A cleaner election than our 2020 “election”.<<<<
Can’t wait to see how “clean” 2024 is or if there even is a 2024 election.
“Free”,.... as long as you don’t want elections, or to go to the church you please, or not to get grabbed off the street and sent to the eastern front, or be commanded by nazis.
>>>>The bottom line is that the Russians aren’t going to negotiate with a former president and current comedian.
It’s really that simple.<<<<
Exactly. Putin knows a waste of time when he sees it.
Roosevelt didn’t. Lincoln didn’t. And if Z was so popular, and the Russian speaking areas and Crimea weren’t included... he should win in a landslide. Right? lol
>>>>Churchill had to wait until WWII ended before an election could take place in the UK.<<<<
Britain did hold elections during WWII.
On July 5, 1945 they held an election that resulted in Clement Attlee being elected Prime Minister, replacing Churchill.
There were also numerous elections to fill in empty seats in parliament during the war.
>>>>“Free”,.... as long as you don’t want elections, or to go to the church you please, or not to get grabbed off the street and sent to the eastern front, or be commanded by nazis.<<<<
Yep, and state controlled media and forced repatriation.
This must be some rare species of freedom that we’re not familiar with.
Elections? We ain’t got no elections. We don’t need no elections. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ elections!”
Little Hitler.
The war in Europe was ended two months earlier, May 8th, which is what mattered to Britons. The war in the Pacific, which was 99% an American war, had just five weeks to go.
And you do know that in the UK the Prime Minister is not elected directly, don't you?
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