15/ Ukraine is subject to all of these difficulties and more. Unlike the UK, it has a large amount of territory and millions of citizens under enemy occupation, who are unable to participate in an election.
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16/ It also has a huge number of internally displaced people, making it very difficult to create an accurate electoral register. The UK had a similar problem in WW2 - almost 3.75 million people were displaced internally, compared to about 3.6 million in Ukraine currently.
The UK also had soldiers fighting in the far east who were entitled to vote.
Ukraine has refugees all over the world who are entitled to vote but nowadays it would be easier to arrange.
17/ The US, Australia and Canada were able to hold elections during wartime because they suffered very little internal disruption due to the war. The UK was in a very different situation then, with very similar difficulties to those being experienced by Ukraine now. /end
Australia was never directly under threat except bombings in Darwin (or subs in Sydney Harbour).
The vast majority of the country lived with austerity because of the war effort but never had massive disruptions to day to day life like a country being attacked or worse still, under occupation.
Putin can F off from Ukraine, return all troops in orcistan and that would realy help to create conditions for elections. I mean, when he is so worried...
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Ukraine has refugees all over the world who are entitled to vote but nowadays it would be easier to arrange.
The vast majority of the country lived with austerity because of the war effort but never had massive disruptions to day to day life like a country being attacked or worse still, under occupation.
🔹 https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1942-09-30/debates/c276973d-5346-428b-ac74-af7abf30bd32/ProlongationOfParliamentBill
🔹 https://war.ukraine.ua/articles/not-sacrificing-democracy-why-ukraine-cannot-hold-elections-under-the-martial-law/
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