The 268 parliament members current on Tuesday voted unanimously in assist of the Ukrainian president.
Ukraine’s parliament has overwhelmingly authorised a decision affirming the legitimacy of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s keep in workplace, asserting the constitutionality of deferring the presidential election whereas the nation is at struggle.
The 268 parliament members current on Tuesday voted unanimously to approve the decision, whereas 12 different MPs weren’t current through the session.
The decision was designed by the parliamentary management as a symbolic present of assist for Zelenskyy, whose common time period in workplace led to Could.
Final week, US President Donald Trump had accused Zelenskyy of being a “dictator” since he has not held elections in recent times, echoing claims beforehand made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Nonetheless, beneath Ukrainian regulation, elections can’t be held so long as a state of martial regulation persists throughout the nation. Martial regulation was declared following the Russian invasion in February 2022.
“The Verkhovna Rada as soon as once more recollects that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected in free, clear, democratic elections. His mandate is just not known as into query by the Ukrainian individuals or the Verkhovna Rada,” the decision learn.
The doc additionally referred to Article 108 of the Ukrainian structure, based on which the incumbent head of state stays in energy till the following elected president takes workplace.
Ukrainian Parliament unanimously votes to affirm President Zelensky’s legitimacy and the constitutionally mandated requirement that stops elections throughout martial regulation.
268 YES
0 NO
12 NOT PRESENT pic.twitter.com/WHUMH3XLx7— SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre (@StratcomCentre) February 25, 2025
Trump had additionally claimed that the Ukrainian chief had solely a 4 p.c “approval score” in polls, repeating studies from Russian media.
However based on a survey carried out this month by the Kyiv Worldwide Institute of Sociology, Zelenskyy has a 57 p.c approval score.
Even when that is down from the 90 p.c peak simply after Russia’s invasion it is a signal that Zelenskyy is “sustaining his legitimacy”, the institute stated.
Tuesday’s vote within the Ukrainian parliament was a reversal from a day earlier, throughout which the decision acquired 218 votes, falling eight votes shy of the brink 226 votes wanted to move.
Zelenskyy has up to now been capable of depend on shifting majorities in parliament to move laws, as sufficient members of parliament from his personal get together are usually not at all times current.
With out parliamentary assist, worldwide agreements reminiscent of a potential peace treaty with Russia or a proposed uncooked supplies settlement with the US can’t be ratified and are available into power.
