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What Ukraine's politics looked like on 27 May 2019
Summary
A retrospective on the political developments that framed Ukraine's calendar in the days before 27 May 2019.
What was shaping Ukrainian politics on 27 May 2019? Two decisions taken in the preceding days set the backdrop.
On 21 May 2019, President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a decree ending the powers of the eighth-convocation Verkhovna Rada. The same decree called early parliamentary elections for 21 July 2019. By 27 May 2019, the country was therefore moving towards a vote on a fixed date.
On 22 May 2019, the Cabinet of Ministers approved a new edition of the Ukrainian orthography, prepared by the Ukrainian National Commission on Orthography. The step concerned the rules of the written language and was taken in the same week as the decree on the Rada.
Together, the two decisions, one on the make-up of parliament and one on the standard of written Ukrainian, marked the days leading up to 27 May 2019.
