Ukraine’s constitution is confusing. Article 103 states that the president is elected for a five-year term; but Article 108 says that he or she exercises power until a new president is inaugurated. A longstanding law (though not a constitutional provision) says that elections cannot be held when martial law is in force, as it has been in Ukraine since Russia began its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Having read about this before, I can say that The Economist is wrong. It is a constitutional provision in Ukraine.

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 month ago

You literally quoted and bolded the phrase that says it's not a constitutional provision 🙃

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

They also banned or nationalized many media outlets, censor media in general, and suspended eleven political parties during his term, which eventually became permanent bans.

Al Jazeera, Mar. 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?

Europe is no bastion for frozen peaches, either. AP, Mar. 2024: EU bans 4 more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the bloc, citing disinformation

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wild how upset people get when you point out basic facts of the situation.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Cause the people supporting Ukraine are either ignorant of or deny every basic fact of the situation. You're ruining their Marvel movie view of the world

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This has been the singlemost extreme mass hypnosis events of my lifetime. People lose their minds in this topic over the most easily provable basic facts.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

To me, it's been amazing to see people who appeared to understand the ethos of Chomskys "manufacturing consent" then immediately turned into war hawks.

The worst are the ones who claimed to understand that working class kids are "fortunate sons" but then wanked themselves into a frenzy watching videos of DJI drones dropping grenades onto Russian kids.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

In virtually every war in these Burgerlanders’ lifetimes, their country has been on the morally & militarily losing side. They desperately, desperately want a moral & military victory for once, even moreso now that Biden has proven to be Genocider in Chief.

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There may be extenuating circumstances..

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that also why they banned all those opposition parties? They were just getting in the way of executing the war?

[–] skeletorsass@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

As with Japan 大政翼賛会

War is not popular when it is not going well.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

There's extenuating circumstances! pit

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You're anti-democratic.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

No surprise there. They support an imperialist proxy war, why wouldn't they overlook this

[–] pelikan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Noone in US or EU would care about expiration of Zelensky’s presidential term as long as he's reliable supplier of cannon fodder for proxy NATO-Russia war. Roosevelt's words on Somoza ("he may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch') would apply here as well.

[–] Slayan@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah yes worldnews.lm the place where dictators are the good guy

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Seriously... This is just sad to see.