The 268 parliament members current on Tuesday voted unanimously in help of the Ukrainian president.
Ukraine’s parliament has overwhelmingly accepted 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 warfare.
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 help for Zelenskyy, whose common time period in workplace resulted in Could.
Final week, US President Donald Trump had accused Zelenskyy of being a “dictator” since he has not held elections lately, echoing claims beforehand made by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Nonetheless, underneath Ukrainian legislation, elections can’t be held so long as a state of martial legislation persists throughout the nation. Martial legislation 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 isn’t 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, in keeping with 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 forestalls elections throughout martial legislation.
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 stories from Russian media.
However in keeping with a survey carried out this month by the Kyiv Worldwide Institute of Sociology, Zelenskyy has a 57 percent approval rating.
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 mentioned.
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 edge 226 votes wanted to cross.
Zelenskyy has to this point been in a position to depend on shifting majorities in parliament to cross laws, as sufficient members of parliament from his personal social gathering will not be at all times current.
With out parliamentary help, worldwide agreements corresponding to a potential peace treaty with Russia or a proposed uncooked supplies settlement with the US can’t be ratified and are available into power.
