Olena Zelensky reveals in an interview on CBS News that she doesn’t “fully support” her husband’s decision to run in 2019. However, she believes they will have “more experience” the second time around and that the experience will not be as “scary” as it was four years ago.
On March 31, 2024, almost two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began, Ukrainians are scheduled to go to the polls to elect their new president. If the outcome of the vote and therefore the representation of Volodymyr Zelenskyy is uncertain, his wife Olena assures that she will support him “regardless of his decision”.
“I don’t know if he has made his decision,” she assured this Sunday on the American television channel CBS News, adding: “It will depend on the situation in our country and the possibility of organizing free and fair elections.” will also depend on whether society still wants him as president. If he thinks otherwise, he will not run again.”
When Olena Zelensky reveals that she did not “fully support” her husband’s decision to run in 2019, she believes that they will have “more experience” the second time around and that the experience would not be as “scary” as before four years.
Difficulties in organization
beginning of September Volodymyr Zelensky had declared himself “ready” to organize elections in his country in times of war “if the people need it.” In addition to the presidential election, a parliamentary vote is also scheduled to take place in 2024.
“It’s not about democracy,” it’s “just about security,” assured Ukraine’s by far most popular politician, emphasizing that there are “many” problems to solve.
Among other things, he mentioned the difficulty of organizing voting for tens or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers “in the trenches” and the difficulty of sending international observers to the war zone, where heavy fighting and bombing continue.
Clément Boutin journalist BFMTV