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Didn’t he flee because he was at risk of harm? That still doesn’t remove him from the presidency. There’s a process for that which wasn’t followed - the vote is
by blackeyeblitzar 2y ago
Didn’t he flee because he was at risk of harm? That still doesn’t remove him from the presidency. There’s a process for that which wasn’t followed - the vote isn’t a substitute.
- throwaway48476 2y agoHe fled because literally half of kyiv was protesting. He was going to get impeached because he spent 15 years being pro EU and then reneged. He ordered the berkut to shoot protesters so he might have been charged with crimes for that.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoWhy wasn’t he impeached? Isn’t that the right way to handle it?
- throwaway48476 2y agoHe got in a helicopter and fled to Moscow before that could happen.
- pvg 2y agoHis security forces started shooting protesters? You can just look this stuff up.
- mopsi 2y agoYanukovych fled because even his own party turned on him after police snipers killed over a hundred people. Instead of securing a political deal with other parties to safeguard his future (as he had hoped), he faced the possibility of arrest and criminal prosecution. So he just ran away before it could happen, left Ukraine for Russia and never returned. Ukraine's parliament assembled and unanimously scheduled a snap presidential election, which was held a few months later. The Ukrainian people subsequently elected a new president.