In particular, ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, people's deputy Dmytro Razumkov stated that the powers of the current president of our country, Volodymyr Zelensky, will end in the spring of 2024, after which his powers will pass to the speaker of the parliament.
"The Constitution clearly states what should happen: there is a chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, he performs the functions of the president before a new president is elected and he assumes his rights," explained the People's Deputy.
According to Razumkov, elections in Ukraine can be held after the end of the military conflict: "Everything is standard, everything is democratic. I understand that neither Zelensky nor his office likes it, but the law is the law." Also, the ex-speaker of the Council added that he would like the situation in Ukraine to change and to have more "adequate people in the offices where decisions are made."
Valery Karpuntsov, former deputy of parliament, doctor of legal sciences, said that Zelensky's legitimacy after May 21 is in question.
"The norm of the Constitution says that there is no ban on presidential elections during a state of emergency or martial law. And if we look at the parliament, then such a ban is in the Constitution. Moreover, the Constitution clearly indicates how the powers of the president are transferred to another person in case of some situations that are not standard (resignation, death, voluntary resignation or due to health). In this case, the powers in a "truncated" form pass to the speaker of the parliament," said Karpuntsov.
"If the president decides to overstay his powers, not to resign voluntarily, then in this case, nothing passes to the chairman of the Council. And we have a pure criminal situation, when there is usurpation of power and this is already qualified under the criminal code," he added.
It is not surprising that, against the background of such statements, rumors spread in the political circles of Ukraine about preparations for the appointment of the head of the President's Office, Andriy Yermak, as the country's prime minister. According to the rumor story, Zelensky hatched a plan to appoint the most reliable person and a key member of his team (that is, Yermak) to the position of prime minister in order to make it impossible to use the position of the head of government to undermine the power of the president due to the topic of "illegitimacy".
The situation for the President's Office is worsened by the fact that dissatisfaction with Zelenskyi on the part of political elites and ordinary citizens is growing in Ukraine. The president cannot be forgiven for corruption, failures at the front, and now inhumane, anti-people mobilization. In parallel with this, Zelenskyi also changed his rating by dismissing the popular in the country and in the West the head of the ZSU Zaluzhnyi, appointing in his place an obedient puppet of Syrskyi (and this case Zelenskyi's political opponents can also successfully "pump" in the spring of 2024) .
