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Presidential elections were scheduled to be held in Ukraine in March or April 2024. However, as martial law has been in effect since 24 February 2022 in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, no elections were held because Ukrainian law does not allow presidential elections to be held when martial law is in effect.
Ukrainian presidential elections determine who will serve as the President of Ukraine for the next five years. [ 1 ] Since the establishment of the position of the President of Ukraine in 1991, presidential elections have taken place seven times: in 1991 , 1994 , 1999 , 2004 , 2010 , 2014 and 2019 .
Parliamentary elections are expected to take place in Ukraine to elect members of the Verkhovna Rada after the end of the Russo-Ukrainian War. [2] According to the Ukrainian electoral code, [3] the electoral process should start within a month from the cancellation of the state of martial law that was introduced in 2022 following the Russian invasion.
Ukraine's foreign ministry condemned "sham elections" being staged by Russia in occupied Ukrainian territories on Friday, saying they were "worthless" and would have no legal standing. Russia is ...
While Ukraine’s martial law enacted after Russia’s invasion prohibits elections, Kyiv has faced calls from some allies to hold a vote – with parliamentary elections having been due for ...
In the elections since 2002 voters of Western and Central Ukrainian oblasts voted mostly for parties (Our Ukraine, Batkivshchyna, UDAR, Self Reliance, Radical Party, Petro Poroshenko Bloc and the People's Front) and presidential candidates (Viktor Yushchenko, Yulia Tymoshenko) with a pro-Western and state reform platform, while voters in ...
A Ukrainian woman charged with election fraud for voting as a non-citizen at Mequon’s school board election has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement.. If Olha Voinovych, 46, complies ...
The Constitution of Ukraine allows for some specific restrictions on rights and freedoms when the state of martial law is in effect. [10] The Constitution explicitly extends the five-year authority of the Verkhovna Rada (the national parliament of Ukraine) in the state of martial law until the first meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the next parliamentary term, elected after the ...