Zelensky on legitimacy dispute: My term is not over yet

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1. There is no dispute, just propaganda trying to make one. 

   The country is at war, while at war they can’t have elections according to their own constitution. That’s just it. 

2. People who don’t want Zelensky as Ukraine’s president should give Ukraine the weapons it needs to drive Russia’s invasion out. With the war over, there can be elections.

   There is no legitimate dispute about his term, there is just Russian propaganda as usual.

3. Kremlin trolls “bbbut America had elections during the civil war” in 3, 2, 1…

   PS: Britain during the whole WW2 didn’t hold elections.

4. By Constitution is over, because officially(by internal law and documents) we aren’t at war

5. I personally dislike Zelensky (although respect him for not fleeing at the start of invasion), but no elections would be possible currently. Any poll station is just going to be a target for russian shelling and how do you even organise voting for soldiers on the front? Not to mention people that left country, or moved inside country from occupied territories. For better or worse we are stuck with him until the end of the war.

6. The Constitution of Ukraine prohibits holding elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine under martial law.

   “According to Article 83 of the Constitution, parliamentary elections cannot be held during martial law. This article is interpreted in different ways, but in my opinion, it is straightforward and says clearly that the powers of the parliament, which operates during martial law, cannot be terminated. Accordingly, there can be no elections if the legislative branch’s powers cannot be suspended during martial law”, says Olha Aivazovska, Head of the Board of the Civil Network OPORA.

   In simple terms, elections can only be held unless changes to Ukraine’s primary law are adopted, which is also impossible under martial law following Article 157 of the Constitution. Ukrainian legislation also prohibits the termination of the powers of state authorities (the President, the Verkhovna Rada, the Cabinet of Ministers, the National Bank, and some others) under martial law.

   [https://war.ukraine.ua/articles/not-sacrificing-democracy-why-ukraine-cannot-hold-elections-under-the-martial-law/](https://war.ukraine.ua/articles/not-sacrificing-democracy-why-ukraine-cannot-hold-elections-under-the-martial-law/)

7. I am not sure about exactly elections, but would be really good if Ukrainian people opinion somehow being asked and taken in consideration.

8. A change right now seems unwise, but a discussion and maybe decision on how and under which circumstances this will eventually be handled wouldn’t be a bad idea. There is a real possibility of this turning into a frozen or at least very long conflict, at some point questions about legitimacy will become hard to ignore and be an easy topic for any kind of propaganda.

9. Is there really a dispute?

   It sounds like the usual Kremlin whataboutism.

10. An election would make zero since, cuz only women and retired people would vote, which is illegitimate anyway.

    Although an election could serve as a bait, so the commissars can kidnap all the men directly after Scratching the X.

11. I’m not a big fan of the man, but you can’t change the leader of the country in the middle of a war.

12. Not holding elections during wartime is just so completely normal.

13. I find it kind of strange how easily some people here brush this aside as if it weren’t any issue at all. Martial law and similar things are highly sensitive and critical subjects for any democracy and they absolutely need to be heavily scrutinized, they have been abused too often. Even if it isn’t problem right now, it could easily become one, either from the conflict dragging on, unpopular decisions from the government, an eventuall peace deal etc. It really is in Ukraine’s interest to establish clarity on how they plan to to govern in the coming months and years.

14. There is no oegitimacy dispute other than in Russian propaganda. What a terrible headline.

15. instead of letting the Constitutional Court speak on this matter hence the inconsistency in law interpretation he prefers to keep his autocratic tone. all his promises were fulfilled in reversed way especially the main one: to stop the war. 73% voted for peace and he did exactly opposite.

16. We can have a long discussion about his methods, but sadly – we simply can`t make an election`s right now, when ruzzian rockets are flying around in search of most populated place to hit. And also i don`t want Poroshenko a.k.a Pidoras Shokoladniyj to have even slightest chance to become a president, because he probably will sign another “peace” like he done it back in days.