Forecast: majoritarians and regional elites will flee the sinking ship of the Poroshenko Bloc
At the by-elections to the Rada held last Sunday in seven constituencies, the “Petro Poroshenko Bloc” suffered a strategic defeat. So says Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management. “The aggregate rating of the coalition is more than 20%, and the rating of Batkivshchyna, Samopomich, radicals and the Opposition Bloc is 50-60%. With such a balance, getting 5 places out of 7 is a tactical victory.…