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2023-11-08 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Zelenskyy Highlights New Western Democratic Norms and Cancels Election
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Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-08 01:15|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 What do you expect from a "president" of (in every thing but location) African country?
Posted by Grom the terrible 2023-11-08 06:42||   2023-11-08 06:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Ukraine's constitutional text is pretty straightforward: In the case of martial law or a state of emergency, Article 83(4) of the Constitution provides for the extension of the Parliament’s powers until the day of the first meeting of the first session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, elected after the termination of martial law or state of emergency.

The prohibition of wartime presidential elections is also established in statutory law. Article 19(1) of the Law of Ukraine „On the Legal Regime of Martial Law“ prohibits the holding of elections for the President of Ukraine, as well as elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and local self-government, under martial law. The Electoral Code of Ukraine also provides for the suspension of any electoral process from the moment martial law is introduced (Article 20).
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-11-08 07:34||   2023-11-08 07:34|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't recall Stalin holding elections 1941-45. For some reason we kept shipping him war supplies.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-11-08 07:37||   2023-11-08 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Wasn't this a Bee headline just the other day?
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-11-08 11:02||   2023-11-08 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Bee nov 7 Zelensky Cancels Elections To Focus On Fighting For Democracy
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-11-08 11:41||   2023-11-08 11:41|| Front Page Top

#6 So all a would be dictator has to do is declare martial law and he's suddenly President for Life.

And yes, Roosevelt shipped materiel to Stalin because, with Hitler on the rampage, Stalin was the lesser of two evils. Some historians, and even Patton, might argue about that. But Stalin did not invade France or bomb London. Also because Roosevelt was a communist at heart.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-11-08 11:50||   2023-11-08 11:50|| Front Page Top

#7 I would also argue that democracy is no damn good at all if the people cannot participate in the most important decisions that could possibly face a nation, those decisions that have to do with their sons being sacrificed for the glory of a weasel like Zelensky, on orders from a corrupt dementia patient like Biden.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-11-08 11:55||   2023-11-08 11:55|| Front Page Top

#8 But even dictators and emperors like Tsar Nicholas II can be overthrown if the war becomes so unpopular that the people would rather risk revolution than suffer another day of a bloody stupid war like WWI. You might call that democracy in its purest form.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-11-08 12:00||   2023-11-08 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 democracy is another of those words now being abused into uselessness.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-08 12:02||   2023-11-08 12:02|| Front Page Top

#10 We don't cancel elections because we demand ritual and entertainment, even thought the ending has already been preordained.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-11-08 16:43||   2023-11-08 16:43|| Front Page Top

#11  But Stalin did not invade France or bomb London.

He would have done, had the Allies not stopped him at Berlin. Instead he was forced to undermine them from within, following the Gramsci method and sponsoring all sorts of Antifa-like groups to weaken and distract them until those they educated were ready to take power.

Unfortunately, his Soviet Union succumbed first.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-11-08 17:46||   2023-11-08 17:46|| Front Page Top

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