Yulia Tymoshenko
OP-ED
Yulia Tymoshenko: A vote for Ukrainian freedom
Yulia Tymoshenko is former prime minister and presidential candidate in Ukraine.
Holding an election amid threats of invasion and sabotage by fifth-column separatists is the most severe test a democracy can endure. But as President Abraham Lincoln said, facing re-election in 1864 while America’s Civil War still raged, “We cannot have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone, a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us.”
