Brief election news
key electoral events
812 days back
Vladimir Zelensky in an interview with Fox News: Now I have the greatest support in society. So if we hold elections now, people will elect me. Needless to say, I'm trying to stay in power
816 days back
KIIS poll: 53% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that Vladimir Zelensky should run for a second term in the event of presidential elections in Ukraine, 43% are against this. In December 2023, this ratio was 59% to 34%
816 days back
KIIS poll: 69% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that Vladimir Zelensky should remain as president until the end of martial law; 15% - for elections during the war; 10% believe that Zelensky should resign and transfer powers to the head of the Verkhovna Rada
834 days back
Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko: “Elections during the war would be poison for the country. This could destroy Ukraine from the inside. We must definitely wait until the end of the war before organizing them.”
845 days back
Vladimir Zelensky: I think we need to think about how to hold elections. If I could hold elections tomorrow, I would do it tomorrow. We must change circumstances and the law. The Rada must vote and give a mandate for the elections. They can't do it because it's prohibited by law.
848 days back
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk: The decision not to hold elections in Ukraine during the war has already been finally made by the authorities. This is a consensus decision of all branches of government. We also see that society considers it inappropriate to hold elections during a war
849 days back
NSDC Secretary Alexey Danilov: We are in a martial law situation, during which it is virtually impossible to ensure democratic elections. Russia is starting a huge campaign to discredit the top leadership of our country, insisting on alleged illegitimacy
890 days back
The Verkhovna Rada today approved the statements of three people's deputies to resign their mandates: Vitaly Danilov (Batkivshchyna), Maxim Efimov (Restoration of Ukraine) and Dmitry Shpenov (self-nominated). After this, 401 people’s deputies remain in the Verkhovna Rada
896 days back
First Lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya: “I don’t want him to become president for the next term or for the next two terms, this is impossible. We will probably have to come up with something new”
897 days back
In an interview with the Associated Press, speaking about his presidency, Vladimir Zelensky noted that “there are no words to describe how difficult this work is” and he “cannot imagine leaving his post”
897 days back
In an interview with the Associated Press, Vladimir Zelensky said that he is ready to hold elections, although the majority of Ukrainians are against this and consider such a vote “dangerous and senseless.” The war made it impossible to hold presidential elections in Ukraine
898 days back
Future parliamentary and presidential elections will be held after the end of the war and no less than six months after the end of martial law. They should be held on the basis of the current Electoral Code, preserving the electoral systems of national and local elections - details of the memorandum signed by the heads of parliamentary factions behind closed doors in early November
899 days back
Poll Rating: 78% of respondents would vote for Ukraine's accession to the European Union if such a referendum were held, which is slightly less than in July (85%). Support for the state's entry into NATO tends to decrease and amounts to 77% (in July it was 83%).
902 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
904 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
905 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
906 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
907 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
907 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.
907 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”
910 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
812 days back
Vladimir Zelensky in an interview with Fox News: Now I have the greatest support in society. So if we hold elections now, people will elect me. Needless to say, I'm trying to stay in power
816 days back
KIIS poll: 53% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that Vladimir Zelensky should run for a second term in the event of presidential elections in Ukraine, 43% are against this. In December 2023, this ratio was 59% to 34%
816 days back
KIIS poll: 69% of Ukrainians surveyed believe that Vladimir Zelensky should remain as president until the end of martial law; 15% - for elections during the war; 10% believe that Zelensky should resign and transfer powers to the head of the Verkhovna Rada
834 days back
Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko: “Elections during the war would be poison for the country. This could destroy Ukraine from the inside. We must definitely wait until the end of the war before organizing them.”
845 days back
Vladimir Zelensky: I think we need to think about how to hold elections. If I could hold elections tomorrow, I would do it tomorrow. We must change circumstances and the law. The Rada must vote and give a mandate for the elections. They can't do it because it's prohibited by law.
848 days back
Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk: The decision not to hold elections in Ukraine during the war has already been finally made by the authorities. This is a consensus decision of all branches of government. We also see that society considers it inappropriate to hold elections during a war
849 days back
NSDC Secretary Alexey Danilov: We are in a martial law situation, during which it is virtually impossible to ensure democratic elections. Russia is starting a huge campaign to discredit the top leadership of our country, insisting on alleged illegitimacy
890 days back
The Verkhovna Rada today approved the statements of three people's deputies to resign their mandates: Vitaly Danilov (Batkivshchyna), Maxim Efimov (Restoration of Ukraine) and Dmitry Shpenov (self-nominated). After this, 401 people’s deputies remain in the Verkhovna Rada
896 days back
First Lady of Ukraine Elena Zelenskaya: “I don’t want him to become president for the next term or for the next two terms, this is impossible. We will probably have to come up with something new”
897 days back
In an interview with the Associated Press, speaking about his presidency, Vladimir Zelensky noted that “there are no words to describe how difficult this work is” and he “cannot imagine leaving his post”
897 days back
In an interview with the Associated Press, Vladimir Zelensky said that he is ready to hold elections, although the majority of Ukrainians are against this and consider such a vote “dangerous and senseless.” The war made it impossible to hold presidential elections in Ukraine
898 days back
Future parliamentary and presidential elections will be held after the end of the war and no less than six months after the end of martial law. They should be held on the basis of the current Electoral Code, preserving the electoral systems of national and local elections - details of the memorandum signed by the heads of parliamentary factions behind closed doors in early November
899 days back
Poll Rating: 78% of respondents would vote for Ukraine's accession to the European Union if such a referendum were held, which is slightly less than in July (85%). Support for the state's entry into NATO tends to decrease and amounts to 77% (in July it was 83%).
902 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
904 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
905 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
906 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
907 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
907 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.
907 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”
910 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
