Brief election news
key electoral events
2 days back
Leader of the Servant of the People faction David Arakhamia: Any agreements with Russia other than complete victory should only pass through a referendum. If someone signs something and it needs to be ratified in parliament, then in parliament they will simply kill each other
4 days back
Next year, I believe that there will be no elections in Ukraine at all. Neither parliamentary, nor local, nor presidential - the head of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhamia
5 days back
Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Elena Kondratyuk: Elections are possible only after the end of martial law. This was supported by almost everyone - both political forces and public organizations. Secondly, we reserve the Electoral Code based on open lists, by the way, with a 40% gender quota
6 days back
Head of the CEC Oleg Didenko: Ukrainian women who have been in exile abroad for more than 90 days will not have the opportunity to run in elections - this term interrupts the necessary continuous period of residence in Ukraine, which is a condition for running
7 days back
Vladimir Zelensky, in an interview with The Sun, called on Valery Zaluzhny not to engage in politics: “If you manage a war, remembering that tomorrow you will be involved in politics or elections, then in words and on the front line you behave like a politician, and not like a military man, and I think this is a huge mistake
7 days back
Vladimir Zelensky, in an interview with The Sun, ruled out holding elections during the war: This is illegal and will lead to the division of the country at a time when people will be focused on fighting Russia.
7 days back
The Guardian, citing its own anonymous source: Vladimir Zelensky is acutely concerned about the “Churchill phenomenon” - the likely defeat in the elections of a “successful wartime leader”
10 days back
Head of the CEC Oleg Didenko: Ukraine has evolved to a proportional electoral system with open lists. However, as an exception for post-war Ukraine, from the point of view of election administration, the most favorable is the proportional system with closed lists. In the post-war elections, it is not worth experimenting and introducing something completely new that has not been used so far
20 days back
Deputy Speaker of the State Department Vedant Patel: The United States does not insist on the need to hold elections in Ukraine next year. As far as I understand, this is in accordance with their Constitution, so we will simply leave it to the discretion of the Ukrainians
20 days back
Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Sergei Dubovik: Elections, in particular, the President of Ukraine are called by a resolution of the Verkhovna Rada. You and I have not seen either a draft of such a resolution or any other official documents. The Martial Law Law clearly states that elections will not be held during martial law.
21 days back
Head of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine Oleksiy Koshel: The election process has de facto started in Ukraine. We can already see the extremely high level of activity of some potential presidential candidates. The probability of an election scenario in 2024 is extremely high
21 days back
Representative of the President in the Constitutional Court Fyodor Venislavsky: The legitimacy of a president elected during the war will be questionable. Failure to comply with the constitutional principles of suffrage provides absolute grounds for doubting the legitimacy of the next president, whoever he may be.
22 days back
Volodymyr Zelenskyi: I believe that now is not the time for elections. Now, in wartime, when there are many challenges, it is absolutely irresponsible to throw the issue of elections into society
22 days back
Vladimir Zelensky ordered his team to prepare for the presidential elections on March 31, 2024. It is the president without parliament - people's deputy Alexey Goncharenko
23 days back
In order for the presidential elections in Ukraine to take place within the time frame specified by the Constitution (March 31, 2024), a decision on their holding must be made before the end of November. Already in December, the first procedures for the election campaign should be carried out and a number of changes to legislation should be adopted.
23 days back
The Verkhovna Rada is preparing rules for post-war elections. The draft law being developed proposes to create a temporary special commission (TSC), which will determine whether to hold elections in a particular territory - NV sources in the Verkhovna Rada
25 days back
Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba: Vladimir Zelensky is now considering the possibility of holding presidential elections in the spring of 2024. We are not closing this page. But holding presidential elections during war will be accompanied by unprecedented difficulties
25 days back
The Office of the President is serious about holding presidential elections in the spring of 2024 and plans to reboot the Central Election Commission for this purpose. Representatives of the majority in the Verkhovna Rada are already working on changes in legislation to make possible the expression of the people's will in the front-line territories - NV reports, according to data from several sources
26 days back
Alexey Arestovich plans to run in the next presidential election, if one takes place. “Yes, I will nominate,” he replied in a comment to the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
27 days back
Razumkov Center poll: 50.4% of Ukrainians almost always participate in elections. The level of interest in politics of Ukrainian citizens in 2023 reached almost the maximum value of 62% for the entire period of independence (only once in 2004 was it higher and amounted to 63%)
28 days back
KIIS poll: 81% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that elections should be held only after the end of the war. Only 29% approve of holding elections online
31 days back
International Republican Institute (IRI) poll: 62% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that any elections should be held only after the end of the war. Only 20% are in favor of holding presidential elections during martial law, 39% are in favor of holding elections for the Verkhovna Rada
34 days back
Former adviser to the Office of the President Alexey Arestovich proposes holding simultaneous elections in Ukraine and Russia in the spring of 2024. This will require declaring a truce for the duration of the elections and changing the martial law to a state of emergency. The elections themselves in Ukraine should be held online through “Diya”
34 days back
Head of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk: “I turned to my fellow parliamentarians from many parliaments with a request: please give me the experience of your parliaments, how you conducted or did not conduct elections during the war. And now we are exchanging these experiences. I think that in We will have some kind of decision soon"
35 days back
48 days back
Only 15% of Ukrainians have a positive view of holding presidential or parliamentary elections in 2024, 64% have a negative view. The main reasons for the negative attitude: lack of money, legislative ban on elections and the safety of participants - Razumkov Center survey
48 days back
Active Group survey: 55.9% of Ukrainians surveyed support voting in the Diya application if elections are held during martial law, 32.7% do not support. At the same time, 47.9% will trust the results of such elections, 37.9% will not
48 days back
Active Group survey: 67.4% of Ukrainians surveyed consider it inappropriate to hold elections during martial law, only 23.3% support such a decision. 57.5% support the re-election of the Verkhovna Rada in the near future, 43.8% - local authorities, 17.8% - the president
2 days back
Leader of the Servant of the People faction David Arakhamia: Any agreements with Russia other than complete victory should only pass through a referendum. If someone signs something and it needs to be ratified in parliament, then in parliament they will simply kill each other
4 days back
Next year, I believe that there will be no elections in Ukraine at all. Neither parliamentary, nor local, nor presidential - the head of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada, David Arakhamia
5 days back
Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Elena Kondratyuk: Elections are possible only after the end of martial law. This was supported by almost everyone - both political forces and public organizations. Secondly, we reserve the Electoral Code based on open lists, by the way, with a 40% gender quota
6 days back
Head of the CEC Oleg Didenko: Ukrainian women who have been in exile abroad for more than 90 days will not have the opportunity to run in elections - this term interrupts the necessary continuous period of residence in Ukraine, which is a condition for running
7 days back
Vladimir Zelensky, in an interview with The Sun, called on Valery Zaluzhny not to engage in politics: “If you manage a war, remembering that tomorrow you will be involved in politics or elections, then in words and on the front line you behave like a politician, and not like a military man, and I think this is a huge mistake
7 days back
Vladimir Zelensky, in an interview with The Sun, ruled out holding elections during the war: This is illegal and will lead to the division of the country at a time when people will be focused on fighting Russia.
7 days back
The Guardian, citing its own anonymous source: Vladimir Zelensky is acutely concerned about the “Churchill phenomenon” - the likely defeat in the elections of a “successful wartime leader”
10 days back
Head of the CEC Oleg Didenko: Ukraine has evolved to a proportional electoral system with open lists. However, as an exception for post-war Ukraine, from the point of view of election administration, the most favorable is the proportional system with closed lists. In the post-war elections, it is not worth experimenting and introducing something completely new that has not been used so far
20 days back
Deputy Speaker of the State Department Vedant Patel: The United States does not insist on the need to hold elections in Ukraine next year. As far as I understand, this is in accordance with their Constitution, so we will simply leave it to the discretion of the Ukrainians
20 days back
Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Sergei Dubovik: Elections, in particular, the President of Ukraine are called by a resolution of the Verkhovna Rada. You and I have not seen either a draft of such a resolution or any other official documents. The Martial Law Law clearly states that elections will not be held during martial law.
21 days back
Head of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine Oleksiy Koshel: The election process has de facto started in Ukraine. We can already see the extremely high level of activity of some potential presidential candidates. The probability of an election scenario in 2024 is extremely high
21 days back
Representative of the President in the Constitutional Court Fyodor Venislavsky: The legitimacy of a president elected during the war will be questionable. Failure to comply with the constitutional principles of suffrage provides absolute grounds for doubting the legitimacy of the next president, whoever he may be.
22 days back
Volodymyr Zelenskyi: I believe that now is not the time for elections. Now, in wartime, when there are many challenges, it is absolutely irresponsible to throw the issue of elections into society
22 days back
Vladimir Zelensky ordered his team to prepare for the presidential elections on March 31, 2024. It is the president without parliament - people's deputy Alexey Goncharenko
23 days back
In order for the presidential elections in Ukraine to take place within the time frame specified by the Constitution (March 31, 2024), a decision on their holding must be made before the end of November. Already in December, the first procedures for the election campaign should be carried out and a number of changes to legislation should be adopted.
23 days back
The Verkhovna Rada is preparing rules for post-war elections. The draft law being developed proposes to create a temporary special commission (TSC), which will determine whether to hold elections in a particular territory - NV sources in the Verkhovna Rada
25 days back
Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba: Vladimir Zelensky is now considering the possibility of holding presidential elections in the spring of 2024. We are not closing this page. But holding presidential elections during war will be accompanied by unprecedented difficulties
25 days back
The Office of the President is serious about holding presidential elections in the spring of 2024 and plans to reboot the Central Election Commission for this purpose. Representatives of the majority in the Verkhovna Rada are already working on changes in legislation to make possible the expression of the people's will in the front-line territories - NV reports, according to data from several sources
26 days back
Alexey Arestovich plans to run in the next presidential election, if one takes place. “Yes, I will nominate,” he replied in a comment to the Interfax-Ukraine agency.
27 days back
Razumkov Center poll: 50.4% of Ukrainians almost always participate in elections. The level of interest in politics of Ukrainian citizens in 2023 reached almost the maximum value of 62% for the entire period of independence (only once in 2004 was it higher and amounted to 63%)
28 days back
KIIS poll: 81% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that elections should be held only after the end of the war. Only 29% approve of holding elections online
31 days back
International Republican Institute (IRI) poll: 62% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that any elections should be held only after the end of the war. Only 20% are in favor of holding presidential elections during martial law, 39% are in favor of holding elections for the Verkhovna Rada
34 days back
Former adviser to the Office of the President Alexey Arestovich proposes holding simultaneous elections in Ukraine and Russia in the spring of 2024. This will require declaring a truce for the duration of the elections and changing the martial law to a state of emergency. The elections themselves in Ukraine should be held online through “Diya”
34 days back
Head of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk: “I turned to my fellow parliamentarians from many parliaments with a request: please give me the experience of your parliaments, how you conducted or did not conduct elections during the war. And now we are exchanging these experiences. I think that in We will have some kind of decision soon"
35 days back
48 days back
Only 15% of Ukrainians have a positive view of holding presidential or parliamentary elections in 2024, 64% have a negative view. The main reasons for the negative attitude: lack of money, legislative ban on elections and the safety of participants - Razumkov Center survey
48 days back
Active Group survey: 55.9% of Ukrainians surveyed support voting in the Diya application if elections are held during martial law, 32.7% do not support. At the same time, 47.9% will trust the results of such elections, 37.9% will not
48 days back
Active Group survey: 67.4% of Ukrainians surveyed consider it inappropriate to hold elections during martial law, only 23.3% support such a decision. 57.5% support the re-election of the Verkhovna Rada in the near future, 43.8% - local authorities, 17.8% - the president
