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It is not good how long a president is able to stay in power to without strong elective (re-)legitimation, but I also understand why Selensky and a Ukrainian president in this war manages. Slightly dysfunctional self-determinism is way better than no self-determinism at all plus cultural discrimination, I guess.
It's not dysfunction it is the law. Elections are illegal, they're held every 5 years and the president's term ends, not after 5 years, but after the election as the law states.
The law can be dysfunctional, the law is not always what is good or just. In China the laws prevent you from besmirching the CCP, a woman accused of terrorism for such was just caught attempting to flee through Thailand.
Nobody cares what you think. If you care, go be Ukrainian and change the law.
We all live with laws we do not like, most of us vote for people to change them. I'm assuming you are a nefarious actor (a silly in the head one) because you're intentionally not understanding another country's law.
They have the right to decide how their own law works. Nobody cares what you think is right or wrong.
I can oppose authoritarianism in any country I wish. Fuck China and Fuck Russia, Fuck Trump and the Ayatollah, and Ukraine better be on its' best behavior after this war ends.
It's not authoritarian. It's their established law that was legally established. Shut up.
You can be anti-authoritarian AND staunchly support Ukraine or their citizens in this war fabricated entirely by Russia's fault. Ukraine is not authoritarian by Western standards, but this doesn't mean we should bully civil society trying to achieve progress.
Also why are we so rude to each other?