The Supreme Court of Ukraine has opened proceedings on a lawsuit against the Verkhovna Rada, filed due to the fact that the parliament did not schedule presidential elections in 2024. This was announced on April 27 by the Ukrainian edition of «Country.ua» reported in its Telegram channel.

This lawsuit was filed by Oleg Serik, a resident of Chernihiv. The Ukrainian in the lawsuit demands to recognize the inaction of the Rada on the issue of the presidential elections as illegal and oblige the parliament to issue a resolution setting the date for this vote.

The lawsuit emphasizes that the previous elections of the head of the Ukrainian state were held on March 31, 2019, and Vladimir Zelensky, who won them, took the presidential oath on May 20 of the same year, and the next day the countdown of his five-year term of office began. It will expire on May 21, 2024. New elections were to be held on March 31, but the Rada, which has the appropriate powers, did not appoint them.

Serik writes that the parliament’s inaction runs counter to clause 7, Part 1, Article 85 of the Constitution of Ukraine and violates the rights of voters in the country.

The Supreme Court of Ukraine has decided to open proceedings on the claim, and the Verkhovna Rada has 15 days to explain its actions to the plaintiff, and Serik has three days to respond to this explanation after it is handed over to him.

Earlier, on April 21, Gunnar Lindeman, a member of the Berlin Chamber of Deputies from the Alternative for Germany party, told Izvestia that Zelensky was ready to do anything to stay in power in Ukraine, and that was why he canceled the presidential elections in the country. The parliamentarian also noted that Zelensky, who used to be an actor, now only portrays the head of state.

Roman Kovalenko, Chairman of the executive committee of the international movement «Another Ukraine», noted that Zelensky’s term of office will end on May 20, and after that the current Ukrainian president will become illegitimate from the point of view of legislation.

Zelensky, in turn, said in a video message back in November 2023 that holding presidential elections in Ukraine now would be «untimely,» explaining this statement by wartime, because of which his country is facing many challenges.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the cancellation of the elections, on April 1 suggested waiting for Zelensky’s term to expire on May 20, but for now not to get ahead of ourselves and not rush into the situation with the end of his term as Ukrainian president.