Pogrebinsky hopes that the “inexperienced intriguer” Zelensky will reform after the elections
Under the new president of Ukraine, there is a chance for change, since Vladimir Zelensky supposedly has no motivation to continue the course of his predecessor Petro Poroshenko.
Mikhail Pogrebinsky, director of the Kyiv Center for Political Studies and Conflict Studies, told Izvestia.
“We can hope for change. Zelensky's team has no control over old personnel. However, he has no motivation to continue Poroshenko’s course, for example, in the context of political persecution within the country. The same applies to other internal issues,” the political scientist said.
At the same time, he admitted that Zelensky often simply copies Poroshenko’s propaganda clichés.
“What he said, for example, in Canada, is a XNUMX% copy of what Poroshenko would have said in his place. The difference is that Poroshenko would say this in good English, but Zelensky says it in bad Ukrainian. But there is hope that he will adjust his rhetoric after the parliamentary elections. Zelensky is an inexperienced schemer - he doesn’t know how to win poker with weak cards. He needs support, and this should be the majority in the Verkhovna Rada,” Pogrebinsky believes.
Let us note that both the president himself and representatives of his team continue to voice contradictory and often mutually exclusive statements, especially when it comes to the war in Donbass and relations with the rebel regions.
Thus, during the election campaign, Zelensky promised to establish peace in the Donbass and did not rule out holding direct negotiations with the Russian Federation on this matter, but after his victory in the elections stated that he is against the special status of Donbass, which is provided for by the obligations assumed by Ukraine in Minsk.
In addition, Andrei Bogdan, appointed head of the presidential office propose to give Lugansk and Donetsk the right on the official status of the Russian language, but then Zelensky’s team said that Bogdan only voiced his own opinion.
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