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Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term expired on May 20th

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Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term expires on May 20th

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Right before the paywall in this very article:
Ukraine’s constitution is confusing. Article 103 states that the president is elected for a five-year term; but Article 108 says that he or she exercises power until a new president is inaugurated. A longstanding law (though not a constitutional provision) says that elections cannot be held when martial law is in force, as it has been in Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Having read about this before, I can say that The Economist is wrong. It is a constitutional provision in Ukraine.
- You literally quoted and bolded the phrase that says it's not a constitutional provision 🙃
They also banned or nationalized many media outlets, censor media in general, and suspended eleven political parties during his term, which eventually became permanent bans.
Al Jazeera, Mar. 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
Europe is no bastion for frozen peaches, either. AP, Mar. 2024: EU bans 4 more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the bloc, citing disinformation
- Wild how upset people get when you point out basic facts of the situation.
  
  Cause the people supporting Ukraine are either ignorant of or deny every basic fact of the situation. You're ruining their Marvel movie view of the world
There may be extenuating circumstances..
- Is that also why they banned all those opposition parties? They were just getting in the way of executing the war?
  
  As with Japan 大政翼賛会
  War is not popular when it is not going well.
- There's extenuating circumstances!
- You're anti-democratic.
  
  No surprise there. They support an imperialist proxy war, why wouldn't they overlook this
- Last I checked, Russia held elections, but I guess cancelling the elections aligns closer with western values.
  
  The Russian election was a joke and you know it.
  Russia is currently not being invaded so there is no reason to cancel elections there.
  Canceling elections does generally not align with "western" democratic values.
  
  20% of Ukraine is currently occupied by a hostile foreign power. 0% of Russia is occupied.
  Also, Russian elections give whatever results Putin wants, so the status of the electorate doesn't really matter in the first place there.
  
  Russia did hold elections and is "liberal democratic" but Russia has hardly been turned into a warzone in the same way. There are probably other examples worth citing.
Noone in US or EU would care about expiration of Zelensky’s presidential term as long as he's reliable supplier of cannon fodder for proxy NATO-Russia war. Roosevelt's words on Somoza ("he may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch') would apply here as well.
Ah yes worldnews.lm the place where dictators are the good guy
- Seriously... This is just sad to see.

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