Poroshenko can no longer save anything
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko shared the fate of his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych, having lost the support of the country's security and administrative structures.
Political scientist Rostislav Ishchenko shared this opinion during the press conference “Martial law, church schism and the rupture of a big treaty: Ukrainian-Russian relations in 2018,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He noted that the official West responded to the provocation in the Kerch Strait, saying that the elections in Ukraine should not be postponed.
“Even though everyone knows that if the elections are held, Poroshenko will lose, you don’t have to be a genius for this. To tell you that there is an administrative resource, there are some possibilities and other possibilities. But Poroshenko himself built his pre-election campaign, I can’t even call it pre-election, in such a way that now in Ukraine everyone understands that if he doesn’t introduce martial law a second time, it’s much more difficult for him to introduce it the second time than the first time.” , said the political scientist.
In his opinion, even administrative resources cannot save Poroshenko, and therefore the only way for him to maintain power is to disrupt the elections.
“If he doesn’t arrange some serious provocation that allows him to cancel the elections altogether, then he will lose the elections simply because people are already starting to run away from him. That is, the bureaucracy, the military, and the security forces know very well: if Poroshenko goes to the polls, he lost the elections. He will not win because the administrative resource will switch to the other side, just as he left Yanukovych,” the expert emphasized.
The political scientist also said that Poroshenko’s opponents do not intend to lose, because losing for them would mean losing everything.
“The confrontation between them has reached the point where it is clear: either I take you, or you give me... And the loser will, at best, be in prison. That is, this is a loss forever. And it doesn’t matter that later the winner will also lose, what matters is that today’s loser will never become a winner. That is, they will fight to the end,” Ishchenko concluded.
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