Holding elections now would deprive everyone in the occupied territories of their vote.
And then you’d have a Ukrainian government that doesn’t represent the people in the occupied territories, essentially agreeing they’re not part of Ukraine anymore.
The ‘occupied territories’ all voted to have closer ties to Russia but then the government got couped by the west, their political parties were outlawed, their populations were ethnically cleansed, AND THEN THEY VOTED TO BREAK AWAY FROM UKRAINE AND JOIN RUSSIA.
The literal point of the war is to deprive them of their vote.
Check your own country’s constitution, it’s probably in there. And you can probably find deliberations by experts (maybe even the people who wrote your constitution) why this makes sense or not. In any case, this is not something they’re going to change while they have much bigger issues.
Stopping elections for any reason is definitely democratic
Holding elections now would deprive everyone in the occupied territories of their vote.
And then you’d have a Ukrainian government that doesn’t represent the people in the occupied territories, essentially agreeing they’re not part of Ukraine anymore.
That’s real fucking ironic.
The ‘occupied territories’ all voted to have closer ties to Russia but then the government got couped by the west, their political parties were outlawed, their populations were ethnically cleansed, AND THEN THEY VOTED TO BREAK AWAY FROM UKRAINE AND JOIN RUSSIA.
The literal point of the war is to deprive them of their vote.
The “occupied territories” seceded from Kiev and want nothing to do with western Ukraine.
Again, constitution.
Don’t seem like very democratic constitution though.
Check your own country’s constitution, it’s probably in there. And you can probably find deliberations by experts (maybe even the people who wrote your constitution) why this makes sense or not. In any case, this is not something they’re going to change while they have much bigger issues.
The ‘just literally say whatever bullshit you want’ superpower
It’s not 👍