Draft laws, parliament, and talk: an expert assessed whether elections are being prepared in Ukraine during the war

Political analyst Ruslan Bortnyk explained that the president’s address to parliament regarding elections looks more like a continuation of discussions about possible elections rather than actual preparation for them, Politeka reports.

He said this on his blog.

“No such preparation is underway, although meetings and discussions on this issue are sometimes held both at the President’s Office and in parliament. If preparations for elections were underway, the president would have already—tomorrow or even today—formally submitted his own draft law on amendments to Ukraine’s Electoral Code, regulating all the necessary issues, and we would have quickly entered the process. This is not happening. The attempt to give instructions to parliament and everything else looks like a continuation of dialogue about possible elections,” Ruslan Bortnyk claims.

As he recalls, the president said he would address parliament; Kornienko said there are seven versions of a draft law, but none of them has been registered in parliament. And in order to pass through parliament, at least two readings are required, with a break between them to introduce amendments. That means it would be a huge discussion that could drag on for a long time. Meanwhile, the Central Election Commission (CEC), the expert adds, has stated that 6–9 months are needed after the end of hostilities to organize the electoral process.

Therefore, he concludes, for now these are just talks; there is no concrete plan for holding elections. Rather, the authorities are demonstrating that they are not clinging to power. And the United States and Russia, the expert explains, want elections in Ukraine not only because they dislike Zelensky, but because they want the final peace agreement to be signed by a person with a new electoral mandate, so that questions of legitimacy do not arise.

“And in this context, we clearly understand that elections in Ukraine would effectively turn into a referendum on peace agreements: some will vote for a candidate who supports the agreement, others for a candidate who opposes it, and still others for a candidate who is somewhere in between—partly for it, partly against it,” Ruslan Bortnyk emphasizes.

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