““Discussions have been focused on whether Ukraine can hold a quick presidential election””, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
It is reported that the conversations were conducted with Yulia Tymoshenko and the five President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
“Discussions were focused on whether Ukraine could hold a quick presidential election,” the material reads.
Both Tymoshenko and Poroshenko have publicly opposed the elections before the fighting was completed. However, “Poroshenko and Tymoshenko people, they all talk to Trump World, positioning themselves as people who would be easier to work with. And people who would agree to many things that Zelensky disagrees, ”said US foreign policy expert from the Republican Party.
Asked if Tymoshenko participated in negotiations with the US administration or Trump’s surroundings about the presidential election or peace talks, her press -secretary Natalia Lisova said: “We will not comment on it yet.”
The publication was in contact with Poroshenko’s European Solidarity to ask for talks with Trump representatives. The press service replied: “Our narrative is not to insist on the elections, but to provide free and honest competitive post -war elections in our country.”
“It is also logical that any contact includes the representation of President Poroshenko’s vision and” European solidarity “regarding the ways of completing the war with a fair, comprehensive and long-term peace and limits of possible compromises on negotiation points,” the press service added.
Petro Poroshenko in February stated that his political force did not call into question the legitimacy of President Vladimir Zelensky. During his speech from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada, he stated that Ukraine should not humiliate the “Putin narrative”.
On February 19, US President Donald Trump called President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky “a dictator without elections”, and before that he said that the rating of Zelensky had already fallen up to 4% and it is necessary to hold elections in Ukraine, noting that this is due to the “objective situation”.
After that, a number of European leaders expressed their support from Zelensky. And the President himself said that an assessment of his rating of popularity is 4% of Russian misinformation.
On February 19, a survey conducted at the beginning of February by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) demonstrates: more than half (57%) Ukrainians trust President Vladimir Zelensky, do not trust him 37% of research participants.
Despite the fact that the formally presidential powers of Vladimir Zelensky had to end in May 2024, Ukraine was unable to hold an election, because after the start of the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation in February 2022, it has a full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation. The impossibility of holding the elections under such conditions is enshrined in the Ukrainian legislation, and there is also consent among the leading political forces, including opposition to Zelensky.