A woman votes in Kiev during local elections in Ukraine on October 25, 2020 (Photo: AFP/Getty).
The parties reached the above agreement at a meeting organized in the form of the Jean Monnet Dialogue for Peace and Democracy on November 10-12 in Zakarpattia province.
According to the minutes of the meeting, representatives of political parties in the Ukrainian Parliament agreed that national elections (parliamentary, presidential) will be held after the end of hostilities and martial law. The time to prepare for elections after the end of martial law must be at least 6 months.
The signatories of the memorandum include Davyd Arakhamiia from the Servant of the People party, Yuliia Tymoshenko from the Fatherland party, Iryna Herashchenko as co-chair of the European Solidarity party, Oleksandra Ustinova from the Voice party, and representatives from other groups.
The dialogue participants also decided to draft a special law to regulate the specifics of the first post-war election.
Ukraine has been under martial law since Russia launched a "special military operation" in February 2022. Under martial law, all elections, including the presidential election scheduled for 2024, were theoretically canceled.
Recently, some opinions from the West have said that Ukraine should still hold presidential elections in 2024 despite the war to demonstrate democratic values.
In early November, President Volodymyr Zelensky affirmed that there would be no elections next year.
"We must decide that now is the time for defense, the time for fighting that will decide the fate of the state and the nation," Mr. Zelensky said in his daily speech on November 7.
He said it was time for the country to unite, not be divided. "I believe that now is not the time for elections," Mr Zelensky added.
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