{"id":30390,"date":"2024-06-09T02:45:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T02:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=30390"},"modified":"2024-06-09T02:45:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T02:45:06","slug":"zelensky-fires-back-at-russian-claims-that-hes-illegitimate-after-his-mandate-ended-in-may-our-people-are-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=30390","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Fires Back at Russian Claims That He\u2019s Illegitimate After His Mandate Ended in May: \u2018Our People Are Free\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

With his constitutional Presidential mandate expired, the \u2018champion for democracy\u2019, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky is facing the discredit by the Russian enemies.<\/p>\n

Recently re-elected in a landslide, Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s has been repeatedly clear about how Moscow sees the Ukrainian leader as lacking legitimacy.<\/p>\n

For the first time, in a press conference in France alongside President Emmanuel Macron, Zelensky addressed the allegations and dismissed them.<\/p>\n

Reuters<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelensky said his legitimacy is recognized and determined by the Ukrainian people while criticizing that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018President Zelensky\u2019s legitimacy is recognized by the people of Ukraine. Our people are free. Putin\u2019s legitimacy is recognized only by comrade Putin\u2019, he told a press conference in Paris.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

As we see, the leader who cancelled elections sees himself as more legitimate than the one who held them and won in a landslide. So it goes.<\/p>\n

The Presidential elections in Ukraine were supposed to take place this spring, and by late May, Zelensky\u2019s five-year term of office ended.<\/p>\n

Zelensky now is ruling by force of Martial law in his country.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, martial law introduced following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 bans any wartime election. The constitution says the president serves until a newly elected one takes office.<\/em><\/p>\n

Putin claimed several times that Zelensky is illegitimate after his five-year term ended this May.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Putin says that the only Ukrainian authority Russia recognizes as of now is the speaker of Parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk.<\/p>\n

But Western leaders \u2013 who are after all Ukraine\u2019s sponsors and handlers \u2013 have not questioned Zelensky\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n

Zelensky\u2019s response comes days after Putin\u00a0started claiming that presidential power should be shifted to speaker of Ukraine\u2019s parliament Stefanchuk.<\/p>\n

It is perhaps not a great sign that Zelensky is now talking of himself in the third person. Kyiv Independent<\/a> reported him as saying.: \u201cIt is the people of Ukraine who elect him<\/strong>, and I am very grateful for their support. Our people are free. This is what we are fighting for.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The latest presidential election should have been held on March 31, 2024, with Zelensky\u2019s term would ending on May 20.<\/p>\n

Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk also dismissed Putin\u2019s claims about Zelensky\u2019s legitimacy; \u201cVolodymyr Zelensky remains and will remain Ukraine\u2019s president until the end of\u00a0martial law. All this is in accordance with Ukraine\u2019s Constitution and laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The post Zelensky Fires Back at Russian Claims That He\u2019s Illegitimate After His Mandate Ended in May: \u2018Our People Are Free\u2019<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With his constitutional Presidential mandate expired, the \u2018champion for democracy\u2019, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky is facing the discredit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nZelensky Fires Back at Russian Claims That He\u2019s Illegitimate After His Mandate Ended in May: \u2018Our People Are Free\u2019 - Sasquatch News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sasquatchnewsonline.com\/?p=30390\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Zelensky Fires Back at Russian Claims That He\u2019s Illegitimate After His Mandate Ended in May: \u2018Our People Are Free\u2019 - 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