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Trump officials suggest Zelensky should step down!

2025-03-04 12:06:19Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Trump officials suggest Zelensky should step down!

For days, Trump cabinet officials have suggested that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should step down.

However, Ukrainian officials and analysts told CNN that any change of president in Kiev would cause at least six months of political limbo and would require a lasting ceasefire in the war before elections could be held that would comply with international standards.

Officials said there were three main obstacles to holding new elections. Also, the deputy chairman of Ukraine's election commission, Serhiy Dubovyk, said that only three-quarters of Ukraine's polling stations are currently operational and preparations to achieve elections according to international standards will take six months.

The Ukrainian constitution also mandates, upon the resignation of the president, that the speaker of parliament take over until the election is complete. Finally, Ukraine is currently under martial law, barring elections until it is lifted, which means a ceasefire or lasting peace will be needed.

The focus on Zelenskyy's future has grown since US President Donald Trump's closest advisers spent Sunday suggesting that he may no longer be the leader Ukraine needs. On Monday, Trump responded to Zelenskyy by saying that the end of the war was far, far away. In contrast, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Trump had no interest in removing the Ukrainian president.

Zelenskyy himself appeared to dismiss the idea of ​​his resignation when he spoke to reporters on Sunday in London, offering a conundrum about how to remove him from power.

"It's not enough to simply hold the elections. You have to prevent me from participating in the elections... You will have to negotiate with me," he said.

Dubovyk said that first, the legal aspect of ending martial law must happen. Second, there must be a preparatory process, because the country is at war, with systemic damage (and) only 75 percent of polling stations are ready for elections, including in the occupied territories.

He said that the six-month preparatory period confirmed by representatives of all factions of the (Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada) is a reasonable timeframe. He added that it could be accelerated, but in this case, it is impossible to fully guarantee compliance with all international standards.

Dubovyk and several other Ukrainian officials cited the logistical challenge of allowing the roughly 7 million Ukrainians living abroad as refugees the opportunity to vote and the potential front-line crisis of having to allow the millions of Ukrainians conscripted into the military the opportunity to vote and run in elections.

The Kremlin has repeatedly referred to what it claims is Zelensky's illegitimacy, questioning his wartime mandate, a point of contention that was included in White House statements last month./ CNN


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