Zelensky term is over. Will he stay, illegally? (yes)
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BBC, USA media etc claim it's OK - because he's "popular"
and................ wait for it.......... Ukrainians would rather skip elections.https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn007p39zdzo
It's called lying.
They have poll numbers but remember, Ukrainians "vote with their feet", flee & resist draft.
Ukraine conscripts people at gunpoint. Even @jaroonn who loves war & is near (he says), won't volunteer. That's how "popular".
USA peeps can imagine this equivalent.
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President Lincoln, in Civil War, cancels Election of 1864
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March 20 1865, he should be out
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Lincoln doesn't care, carries on, won't even ask SCOTUS to clarify, & no elections allowed until Lincoln says
History records, Lincoln was thought dictator by some & assassinated......after he did much less.
The Constitution of Ukraine is not archaic; it was written considering global state-building experiences, including the experience of avoiding a power vacuum.
The Constitution, to simplify, is essentially an instruction manual for the application of power in a particular country. Therefore, it must account for problematic moments, such as the impossibility of holding elections.
And the Constitution of Ukraine does consider this, although there are some ambiguities: it is not entirely clear whether the president can remain in office even after the end of his term until a new one is elected (a norm that exists) or whether he should be replaced by the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (another norm that also exists). This is the crux of the legitimacy problem.
The Constitutional Court could provide clarification.
And Vladimir Putin subtly mocked Zelensky on this issue during the final press conference in China. When asked about the legitimacy of the Ukrainian president after May 20, Putin stated that the answer should be given by Ukraine's political and legal system, including the Constitutional Court.
The irony of the situation is that Zelensky does not appeal to the Constitutional Court. Why not?
Because he was set up by the Americans. In 2020, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine clashed with the president over the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU).
NABU, an external management body for the country, was basically directly subordinate to Washington D.C. and had overlapping powers with practically every law enforcement agency. The Constitutional Court of Ukraine found this contradictory and significantly curtailed their powers.
The head of the world's most independent country immediately received a hefty kick from Washington with a threat to cut off financial aid, echoed by the IMF.
As a result, Zelensky was in conflict with the Constitutional Court of Ukraine for a year and a half, issuing decrees to dissolve it and dismiss the chairman, although he does not have such rights under the Constitution. The Constitutional Court annulled these decrees, and so on. The conflict subsided but did not end with the start of hostilities.
And now the president of Ukraine is simply afraid to seek clarification from the court on constitutional norms because the answer is unpredictable.
.....and, afraid to seek election - because, until Blinken & Americans have enough rigging in place, he'd lose.
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Zelensky now rules by martial law.
His term ran out, EOD May 20.
He previously imposed martial law.
His excuse to cancel Ukraine elections - what made his term run out, with no re-election or replacement - is, "But how can we have elections, while we still have martial law that I imposed?"
& he refuses to consult Constitutional Court of Ukraine - because he'd lose
Yet some will defend this coked-up, pathetic little dictator. smh
btw I don't defend ANY dictator. Not Zelensky. Not Biden. Not Putin. Not Xi. Not Hitler. Not Franco.
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95% will support him because "true journalism" tells them to.
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Profile of Zelensky's first padrone, Igor Kolomoisky / Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi.
https://www.dossier.today/p/the-curious-case-of-ihor-kolomoisky
Like Zelensky, IK is
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Jew who backed Azov Nazis - yes, he gets that weird
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corrupt oligarch
Zelensky & Biden Crime Family both used to be IK puppets.
They got sick of him, got together & jailed him - Probably illegal ie. flimsy charges - since they could NEVER afford to tell world of IK's real crimes using them.
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Coked-up little dictator DENIES his term ended - even as he attributes its end to nationwide martial law - that he himself imposed.
All as I said earlier.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a May 20 interview with Reuters he had to continue serving as president due to martial law.
"My five-year term is not over yet," Zelensky told Reuters. "It is continuing due to martial law."
He knows he's wrong - he Freudian-slipped out, "Five-year term". <-- five years was May 20 BY DEFINITION
This picture is man in trouble........ Not (just) War trouble....... But ethical, spiritual & DRUG trouble:
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Putin wants ceasefire - but can Zelensky really sign for one? what he signs, will be honored later? Why?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-wants-ceasefire-ukraine-kremlin-125346386.html
Moscow aides told Western journalists that Putin is ready for a deal to “freeze the war” along the current front lines.
They also admitted that Russia may not be able to make a significant breakthrough in the fighting without mass mobilisation, which Putin opposes.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Ukraine peace talks need to be renewed, but that Russia would only deal with legitimate leaders in Kyiv.
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You can't legitimately have martial law, without a war to justify it.
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@raphjd Good point. Zelensky needs war now. Can't make peace, for that reason.
He'll have to be removed somehow, for peace to break out.
Will he end up dead? Or flee to Switzerland, live off his embezzled "aid" $$$ ?
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Wikipedia calls him "former" President - at least for this 10 minutes.
I'd say wow - except no doubt, Wiki-lib-CIA axis will be on it soon.
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Sign of Zelensky "popularity".
@jaroonn Ukraine needs you. "Democracy" (cough) needs you. Adam Kinzinger & Bill Kristol, need you.
Why won't you volunteer - you say it's next country over, 1 away from you - to be cannon fodder? Is it because only other people should go to their deaths?
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Maybe he should draft the women as a part of the gender equality the left loves so much but has been totally silent about.
