According to him, the deputies must take into account the features of ensuring the military law of the military on the forefront and Ukrainians abroad. Stefanchuk noted that the work on the document with the Central Election Commission and its chairman Oleg Didenko, who was recently in the Rada at the meeting, is currently ongoing.
“We are developing this bill, because for the next elections we need a new special document that will touch the so -called post -war elections,” he said.
The head of the arsenal emphasized that it is necessary to resolve many issues from the election process itself, the structure of the elections to the formation of electoral lists, precinct commissions, electronic data transmission systems, as well as determining the duration of their implementation.
“Because, well, for example, imagine that the world has come, but on the day of the election, Russian aviation takes off and sinks, takes off and sinks and does not allow Ukrainian citizens to fulfill their constitutional duty, constitutional right to vote in the elections. Therefore, there are a lot of challenges related to the end of this war, it will depend on how and when it ends. But we are preparing various basic scenarios in order People could realize their fundamental constitutional right to choose from.
Context
The last time the presidential and parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine in 2019. In the spring of 2024, the presidential election was to be held, but in Art. 19 pThe Acon of Ukraine on the legal regime of martial law states that in the conditions of martial law (this regime in Ukraine is valid since February 24, 2022), it is forbidden to hold the presidential and parliamentary elections.
On February 1, 2025, the specialized US presidential support for Ukraine Kit Kellog said that if the war in the coming months is declared a truce, the United States expects to hold elections in Ukraine until the end of 2025. On February 19, US President Donald Trump called Zelensky a “dictator without elections”, for which he was criticized by some foreign leaders. Zelensky then replied that the question of elections in Ukraine is primarily raised by Russia, since it “needs a puppet president.”
On March 31, in an interview with Ukrainian Pravda, the head of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine Oleg Didenko stated that after the cancellation of martial law, the Rada would need to make changes to the electoral legislation, and citizens of Ukraine who have left the country must undergo “active registration” – a procedure that will create the necessary number of polling stations outside the diplomatic missions abroad. Later Didenko said that preparations for the elections in Ukraine after the cancellation of martial law will take time, but it is impossible to postpone them for a long time.
