2024 is a year of elections round the world. In Ukraine, the war has delayed an election due at the expiry of President Zelenskyy's original five-year term. In February, Belarus will hold a parliamentary election - its first vote since the 2020 protests - and both the country and its opposition look towards 2025 when a presidential election is due.

This webinar will discuss the prospects for a democratic vote in Ukraine without peace, and in Belarus without democracy.

Speakers

Francesca Cardona*, European External Action Service

Yevhen Mahda, Director, Institute of World Policy (Ukraine)

Philipp Bikinau, independent sociologist

Alexander Shlyk, Special Adviser on Elections, Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya