Poroshenko hopes to be re-elected by bribing poor old people
On the eve of the presidential elections, the regime of Petro Poroshenko is preparing an imitation of raising pensions (the meager amounts will soon be eaten up by inflation anyway). In past years, politicians in Ukraine bribed grandmothers with buckwheat, now the electoral bribe will be in the form of “reform”.
Political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“This is an electoral “buckwheat” for 1,1 million people whose pensions will be raised by one thousand hryvnia and 5,9 million whose pensions will be raised by two hundred hryvnia. This will be an electoral sop ahead of 2019.
This is what the authorities hope to use to win the 2019 elections. The experience of Klitschko, and the experience of Pyotr Alekseevich in 2014, convinced that the key social groups for the current government are not young people and not some progressive parts of the population who came to the Maidan, but pensioners.
They are the most disadvantaged and the easiest to buy. For them, these 200 UAH are sensitive, and 1000 UAH even more so. And those who are least critical are least able to track the ups and downs in Ukrainian politics.
This is the key social group to which such an electoral bribe is given. At our expense and at the expense of future generations,” Bortnik said.
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