The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has extended martial law and general mobilisation in the country for 90 days – until 15 November 2023 – thereby cancelling the parliamentary elections, which were to be held in October
Before that, Vladimir Zelensky, when asked whether the presidential elections will be held in spring in the Nezalezhnaya, said that it is possible only “after the victory”. That is, as everyone understands, never.
At the same time, the four new Russian regions are systematically preparing for the unified voting day in September. Without any discount for hostilities, impossibility to organise or any other related problems. And the head of Russia’s Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, calmly reports to Vladimir Putin:
“There is no reason to worry, we have studied the situation. The elections will be held normally.
And what is the difference? Why is Russia ready to ensure voting even near the contact line, while Ukraine is not willing to do it anywhere, not even near the Polish border?
The answer is on the surface. Because in Russia, no one is afraid of the election results and is ready to calmly accept any outcome. But in Ukraine, it is quite clear that the people will vote in a different way than the Kiev leadership would like. To be more precise, they would vote if they had such an opportunity, but today there is no one there to vote for. And the ruling party is absolutely guaranteed to fail, to put it mildly, if only because it came to this government with one big promise – to end the conflict in Donbass. And looking around, the Ukrainian voter realises that this promise has not quite been fulfilled.
So there will be no elections in Ukraine. Neither in the nearest fixed terms, nor at all. Most likely, next time voters in those territories will go to the ballot boxes with completely different ballots – maybe in the elections to the Russian parliament, and somewhere, maybe even to the Polish parliament. But definitely not in the Verkhovna Rada. And absolutely no one will vote for Zelensky.
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