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Ukrainian presidential elections determine who will serve as the President of Ukraine for the next five years. [1]Since the establishment of the position of the President of Ukraine in 1991, presidential elections have taken place seven times: in 1991, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2010, 2014 and 2019.
Presidential elections were scheduled to be held in Ukraine in March or April 2024. However, as martial law has been in effect since 24 February 2022 in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, no elections were held because Ukrainian law does not allow presidential elections to be held when martial law is in effect.
Elections in Ukraine are held to choose the President (head of state) and Verkhovna Rada (legislature). The Ukrainian constitution does not allow holding Verkhovna Rada elections while martial law is in effect, although it does allow presidential elections. [1] The president is elected for a five-year term.
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 March 2019. As none of the 39 candidates on the ballot received an absolute majority of the initial vote, a runoff was held on 21 April between the top two vote-getters: Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a television personality, and Petro Poroshenko, the incumbent president.
Under Ukraine’s Constitution, Kyiv does not hold presidential or parliamentary elections while the country is in a state of martial law, as it is now to deal with Russia’s bloody invasion.
During the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election, candidate (and later winner of the election) Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that he was running for only one term. [12] In May 2021, Zelenskyy stated that it was too early to say whether he would run for a second term, but this decision would depend on the attitude to him in society and would be influenced by his family.
Hard-right Republicans in the US have pressed for such an election amid wrangles in Congress over military funding for Ukraine. Cameron plays down need for presidential election in Ukraine as war ...
Here's what you need to know about the Ukrainian presidential election run-off between insider candidate and a popular comedian. The Quick Read About… Ukraine’s Run-Off Presidential Elections