https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-war-democracy-dilemma-elections\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“If Russia hadn\u2019t invaded, Ukraine was meant to hold parliamentary elections next month and a presidential vote in March 2024.
\nWhether elections could or should happen is once again a lively topic of discussion in Kyiv, after U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham in late August called for Kyiv to organize \u201cfree and fair\u201d elections even when it is under all-out assault from Russian attacks.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is strongly suggesting he wants to run for a second term. \u201cIn 2024, if the war continues and if elections are held, I will never in my life abandon my country. Because I am the guarantor of the Constitution, and I will defend it in any case,\u201d he said in a recent interview with the Portuguese public broadcaster RTP.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy responded to Graham by saying he is ready \u2014 if parliament agrees \u2014 to overturn the martial law that bans the country from holding elections in time of war, but it\u2019s a topic that raises major questions about democratic legitimacy: most TV channels are heavily controlled by the government, soldiers would have to vote in frontline trenches and millions of Ukrainians have fled abroad.”<\/p>\n
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