• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
    18 days

    To be fair, they’re (understandably) under martial law which has been extended in 90 day increments since 2022 with parliamentary approval. Elections aren’t to be held under martial law per Ukranian law, and there have been referenda votes held among the Rada to determine if elections should be held, which failed.

    Edit: referendum would entail direct democracy. That isn’t what happened - it was just a vote by the legislature.

  • zephiriz@lemmy.ml
    18 days

    And the reason they haven’t had an elections is because they don’t want this guy to be in charge?

    I wonder if I’ll be down voted?

    • m532@lemmy.ml
      18 days

      This totally makes sense if we consider the fact that many westerners don’t consider nonwesterners to be people.

      Colonizers can’t choose the presidents of sovereign nations anymore, the people there do the choosing now, and that makes the colonizers furious.

      • zephiriz@lemmy.ml
        18 days

        I’m confused by the comment? Putin is trying to colonize Ukraine. Putin mad because they had a free election to elect the person who is holding his own against an ageing wana be world power in a war going on for years that was supposed to be over in days. Also Putin rig’s his own elections so him demanding is bit well, fix your own shit before you fix someone else. Oh wait Putin does fix his own elections.

        • m532@lemmy.ml
          18 days

          You’re overthinking it, my comment was purely about the picture you posted

            • m532@lemmy.ml
              17 days

              Nope, it wasn’t.

              You know the meme with the donkey with swirly eyes screaming “RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA”?

              That’s what the picture reminded me of.

              • msage@programming.dev
                17 days

                Nobody who understands how elections work would ever post this.

                It’s embarassing, and quite obviously centered around Zelenskyy, with also unfair title, as if it’s his fault.

                It’s not, fuck you and anyone who defends this.

                And yes, the whole ML is such a sad excuse of a russian propaganda.

                If there was ever a psyop to bury any chance of a communist revolution, this is it.