Poroshenko was afraid that because of Saakashvili he would have to do the splits
Poroshenko was afraid that the story of the breakout of the border by the fugitive ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili would lead to another Maidan. Journalist Anton Podlutsky stated this on air at UkrLife, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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According to him, Western Ukraine could have rebelled if, in the first days, Saakashvili had begun to hold some “forums of national salvation.”
“In Kyiv, in the government offices, they were afraid of the Maidan scenario. They were afraid that, as was the case in 2004 and 2013, national salvation forums and other initiatives would begin to be created. And, with a high degree of probability, if this initiative began in Lviv, it would definitely cover all the regional centers of western Ukraine within a week. There are doubts about the Transcarpathian region and Bukovina, but everything else would definitely be covered by pockets of resistance with demands for early presidential and Verkhovna Rada elections, and Pyotr Alekseevich would find himself in a very bad split. But this did not happen,” Podlutsky said.
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