You can hold voting for a referendum? But no presidential election? Contradictory but whatever.
Furthermore Zelensky said that Russia should be invited to the next peace summit in November. No way he'll negotiate sensibly and it will still be for Ukraine's PR.
The majority of the world today says that Russia must be represented at the second summit, otherwise we will not achieve meaningful results,” he said, adding “since the whole world wants them to be at the table, we cannot be against it.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/601950-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-zelensky/
Clownsky's just adjusting his tone to retain the western audience imo.
Yeah, but then the Nazis aren't known for respecting any democratic participation, thus their response, or at least what they'd wish to do, would be staging a military coup - which is somewhat similar to option 2. And, if that is to be used as justification for entering surrender talks, the Kiev junta must be either ready to deal with any Nazi coup attempts, or in no mood to have honest talks.