President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would like to hold presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine in 2024, but this requires a number of conditions.

According to him, these conditions were expressed by him in a conversation with US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who publicly spoke in the press in favor of holding elections in Ukraine, even despite the legal regime of martial law.

"If our parliamentarians are ready, because we need then changes to the legislation - to the Electoral Code. And do it quickly. Once," Zelensky began to name the necessary conditions.

"I told him (Graham - ed.):" Are you ready to give us 5 billion? Because I'm not a "cobblestone" person. And it seems to me that this is the amount that is needed to hold elections in normal times, and in wartime I don’t know what this amount is,” the president continued.

Such financial support for holding elections, the head of state stressed, could be provided to Ukraine by the United States and Europe.

"I will not hold elections on credit. I will not take money from the armed forces and give it to the elections either," Zelensky said.

In addition, "observers should be in the trenches" and all 7 million Ukrainian refugees abroad should get the opportunity to vote.

Only in this case, according to Zelensky, the results of the will of the citizens of Ukraine can be assessed as legitimate.

"I would like to hold elections. Honestly," Zelensky added.

As the current Ukrainian president summed up, he did not want to be perceived as someone who clings to power and opposes elections.


https://korrespondent.net/ukraine/4618600-zelenskyi-nazval-uslovyia-provedenyia-vyborov-2024