To be fair, they're (understandably) under martial law which has been extended in 90 day increments since 2022 with parliamentary approval. Elections aren't to be held under martial law per Ukranian law, and there have been ~~referenda~~ votes held among the Rada to determine if elections should be held, which failed.
Edit: referendum would entail direct democracy. That isn't what happened - it was just a vote by the legislature.
I would buy this if westerners applied the same nuance to states under imperialist siege, but of course they never have that nuance.
And the bit where they criminalised over ten opposition parties?
there have been referenda to determine if elections should be held
??? I can't find evidence of any such referenda. This seems to just be false. Do you just mean 'survey'?
I am (and most people are) not saying Ukraine MUST hold elections tomorrow. But the meme's point stands - that none of these people have a meaningful democratic mandate.
~~Who is the third from the left?~~
PS: Sorry that was politically incorrect, let me rephrase my question: Who is the second from the far right?
It's just a bourgeois democracy.
Democracy is when the majority of voters hate the government and the greater that majority is the more democratic it is.
