Ukraine’s ousted minister Mykhailo Fedorov calls for wartime elections

BREAKING: Ukraine's ousted defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov calls for wartime elections in a bombshell address, saying the country is gripped by a crisis of governance \u2014 despite martial law banning elections during the war with Russia.

Ukraine's ousted defence minister just called for elections in the middle of the war.

Mykhailo Fedorov, pushed out only this week after months of political turmoil, posted the address on YouTube, and here he is, saying Ukraine is gripped by a crisis of governance and the fix is a vote. His words on the legal wall in front of him were, this is complex, but complexity does not mean impossibility. Ukraine has repeatedly done what the world considered impossible.

The problem is martial law, in force since February 24, 2022, the day Russia invaded, and it flatly bans elections. President Zelensky, who just named Fedorov's replacement after weeks of crisis, has stood by that ban throughout, and Kyiv's parliament would have to unwind it.

So a man removed from power days ago is now asking the country to vote while the missiles still fly. Whatever else that is, it's an open challenge to Zelensky, in wartime, on the record.

This is Sara White, reporting for HIT.

Source Read the original reporting at france24.com