Zelensky confirmed his intention to submit the issue of agreements with the Russian Federation to a referendum
President Vladimir Zelensky said that submitting the issue of concluding peace agreements with the Russian Federation to a referendum is a way to find out the opinion of society, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported on Zelensky’s official website.
“We must hear every person. This is not a legislative referendum, but an informational one: citizens, what do you think. This is a normal conversation with people,” Zelensky said during a meeting with social activists on Thursday at the presidential administration.
The meeting participants, who included volunteers and former military personnel, agreed that it would be appropriate to call this not a referendum, but a survey.
For their part, activists proposed that meetings of the head of state with representatives of the public take place on an ongoing basis.
Zelensky emphasized that he strives for openness in discussing issues important to the country and does not want to make decisions behind closed doors, as was done before.
As PolitNavigator reported, on May 21, the head of the Presidential Administration Andrei Bogdan said that Zelensky’s team is considering the possibility of submitting the issue of concluding peace agreements with Russia on the war in Donbass to a national referendum.
“We are considering submitting the issue of reaching peace agreements with Russia to a popular referendum, so that not only deputies vote and the president makes a decision, but the people make a decision, and society makes an assessment,” he said.
According to Russian political observer and blogger Boris Rozhin, such an initiative by Zelensky is an attempt to protect his policy from criticism from the right. “In conditions when the entire elite is for war, and the entire people want peace, but on the terms dictated to them by propaganda serving the elite interested in war, it is extremely difficult to change the situation. Having promised to end the war in Donbass, Zelensky is obviously faced with intertwined problems that cannot be cut with a dashing blow. On the one hand, there is an aggressive minority who advocate war to a victorious end. It is a minority, but it is aggressive. He has the support of the majority who support peace, but this is not enough to neutralize the minority,” another Russian blogger Anatoly Nesmiyan comments on the situation.
If you find an error, please select a piece of text and press Ctrl + Enter.
Thank you!
Now the editors are aware.