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Head of the Office of the President Kyrylo Budanov believes that the current political situation in Ukraine is extremely tense, but there is no political crisis. He urged not to allow internal division, and for this, among other things, to refuse discussing holding elections during the war. He said this in an interview on the air of the single telethon.
- Elections during the war, in addition to technical problems, carry a serious threat... Elections during the war call into question their results. Because not everyone can vote normally (questions arise: someone voted, someone could not, and how many could not, etc.). And this creates a ground in conditions of not a completely united society for, for example, a region taken separately to say: "Sorry, we are for Ukraine, but we will not recognize all this and until everything is resolved, we will remain an autonomous region". This is the path to the division of the state, Budanov said.
Budanov called the current events in Ukraine not a "crisis" but an "tension". He urged all sides of the confrontation to "calm down a bit and look at the situation in Ukraine more broadly", adding that there is always a way out. According to the head of the Office, the war must be ended, and after that all processes of reloading should be organized.
21 August the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk stated that the parliament is already working on the law on the possibility of elections in Ukraine during the war. However, its specific holding is currently completely impossible.
19 August Fedorov called for holding elections in Ukraine. In his view, it is necessary to find a mechanism to hold them in wartime. The right to vote should be available to all Ukrainians.
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