{"id":22145,"date":"2025-02-02T09:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T06:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/white-house-wants-zelensky-to-hold-elections\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T06:06:20","slug":"white-house-wants-zelensky-to-hold-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/white-house-wants-zelensky-to-hold-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"White House wants Zelensky to hold elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5179817.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Washington wants Kiev to have presidential and parliamentary elections, potentially by this year\u2019s end, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy for the Ukraine conflict, Keith Kellogg.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Kellogg and other White House officials have discussed asking Kiev to hold the votes as part of a potential truce deal with Moscow, RT reported.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the agency, Kellogg said that both the presidential and parliamentary elections \u201cneed to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost democratic nations have elections in their time of war. I think it is important they do so,\u201d the special envoy said. \u201cI think it is good for democracy. That\u2019s the beauty of a solid democracy, you have more than one person potentially running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parliamentary and presidential elections in Ukraine scheduled for October 2023 and March 2024 were not held after Vladimir Zelensky announced in December 2023 that they would not take place while martial law imposed during the conflict with Russia remains in force.<\/p>\n<p>MP\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/227756\/White-House-wants-Zelensky-to-hold-elections\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington wants Kiev to have presidential and parliamentary elections, potentially by this year\u2019s end, Reuters reported on Saturday, citing President Donald Trump\u2019s special envoy for the Ukraine conflict, Keith Kellogg. According to the report, Kellogg and other White House officials have discussed asking Kiev to hold the votes as part of a potential truce deal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}