Fedorov Wants Wartime Elections: "Democracy Can't Be a Hostage"
Freshly out of the defense ministry after turning down consolation gigs, Mykhailo Fedorov just touched Ukraine's most sensitive political topic: voting in a war zone.
After the recent cabinet reshuffle, Zelenskyy offered Fedorov a custom-made role handling military innovations. Fedorov said no thanks — defense minister or nothing. So now, watching from the sidelines while a new defense chief steps in, he dropped an unexpected video message.
His big argument? Ukraine needs to figure out a safe and realistic way to hold elections despite the war, stressing that the country is fighting precisely to remain a free democracy and shouldn't freeze its political system indefinitely because of Russia.
Pulling that off means solving a massive logistical puzzle: ensuring secure voting for soldiers holding frontline trenches, millions of displaced citizens across Europe, and towns sitting directly under daily artillery fire.
Designing digital state platforms was apparently just the warm-up before trying to figure out transparent voting under glide bomb alerts.
Source: YouTube
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