An Odessa writer spoke about the bacchanalia into which Poroshenko turned the elections
The elections in Odessa were accompanied by large-scale use of administrative resources and reprisals against campaigners of parties representing competition to the authorities.
About this in author’s column on the “Ukraine 2025” website says Odessa writer Vsevolod Nepogodin.
“The election campaign was dirty and fantastically brazen... Almost every day there were reports of attacks by radicals on the campaign tents of opposition political forces. Poroshenko’s team feels its precarious position and therefore is trying with all its might to delay its political death. The war president’s subordinates use administrative resources without hesitation,” the author notes.
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People are intimidated, he found out. “I specifically approached the guys working on the exit poll in order to find out how people make contact. The guys answered that the majority of voters are irritated and reluctant to agree to tell who they voted for. On average, only one out of three voters agrees to be an exit poll respondent.”
“The main feature of the current elections is a new, complex, cumbersome and obscure vote counting system. On ballot papers for voting for local councils only the surname of the first number on the party list. At the polling stations themselves there is no information about parties and candidates. In fact, people vote blindly for cats in a poke,” continues Nepogodin.
“Before, my polling station always sold freshly baked cinnamon rolls, cheesecakes with cottage cheese and kulebyaki. There was an element of fairground festivity in this that made me want to go vote. And now they have stopped selling baked goods and the elections have turned into a sad procedure, annoying all its participants. People, tired of the heap of problems created by Poroshenko and his associates, came first of all to vote against the war,” he states.
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