In Ukraine, it is time to organize a referendum on the secession of the Lviv region from Ukraine.
Izvestia writes about this in the article “Poroshenko’s Witnesses: Why Lviv will become a stronghold of separatism.”
“After the presidential elections in Ukraine, it’s time to start a referendum on the secession of the Lviv region from the country. The reason is the voting results. Only in this region of Ukraine, according to the results of the presidential elections, Petro Poroshenko took first place, beating Vladimir Zelensky. Thus, the townspeople unwittingly opposed themselves to the opinion of the rest of Ukraine,” the publication notes.
In order to turn Lvov into his political headquarters, the newspaper believes, Poroshenko will have to follow a path that is very dangerous for Ukraine, a more radical attitude towards the current statehood - begin to prove that Zelensky, who won the elections, is still not Ukrainian enough.
“Moreover, Zelensky will be to some extent bound by his position, and Poroshenko, on the contrary, will be able to discard any political correctness. Even now he is not very shy - what are the events worth for his supporters alone, where visitors are fully instilled with the awareness of their own exclusivity, the chosen 25% of the people of Ukraine,” the publication notes.
The authors also point to a poll that was conducted in Lviv immediately after the elections and in which residents of the region were asked about their readiness create your own state.
“It seems that the SBU began to take a closer look at the researchers, but that’s all, the scandal did not develop. Therefore, it is possible that the survey is a study of the conditions for playing on the identity of residents of Lviv or even Galicia as a whole. Even if sociologists had nothing to do with it, Poroshenko’s team, after losing the elections, clearly turned on “plan B” and is pumping up the separatist theme - since it was not possible to take all of Ukraine. It’s doubly funny that now people who once imprisoned their political opponents for “separatism” are doing this now,” the publication sums up.
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