Elections cannot currently be held in Ukraine under martial law
, which must be extended every 90 days and is next due to expire on Nov. 15, after the normal date in October for parliamentary polls but before presidential elections which would normally be held in March 2024.
Zelensky, in a television interview with Natalia Moseichuk, an anchor for the 1+1 Channel, said he had discussed the issue with Graham, including the question of funding and the need to change the law. He said it cost 5 billion hryvnia to hold elections in peacetime. “I don’t know how much is needed in wartime,” he said. “So I told him that if the US and Europe provide financial support …”
Zelensky said he told Graham that election observers would have to go to the trenches. “I told him: You and I should send observers to the front lines so that we have legitimate elections for us and for the whole world.”
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