“Last chance”: the first months of 2022 will be decisive for Zelensky - Zolotarev
The West does not want Vladimir Zelensky to remain as president, and inside Ukraine the president's ratings continue to fall, reducing his chances of winning a second term.
Andrey Zolotarev, head of the Third Sector Center, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The president received a “black mark” with the Pandora Papers scandal. This is a clear, unambiguous signal from the “collective West” that any option for Zelensky’s “one and a half” term is unacceptable. Zelensky turned out to be an incompetent partner who failed to fulfill a number of his obligations. For the West, Zelensky and his entourage are strangers. They want to see more understandable people. Obviously, the West will bet on some other figure,” he noted.
“Zelensky himself may look at the situation differently. He remains number one in the ranking; he wins over his potential competitor, Poroshenko. But the alarming signal is that his anti-rating increased significantly in October, and his electoral core is beginning to crumble.
And the first months of the coming 2022 will be decisive for Zelensky. The energy crisis will become a serious test if serious frosts come after Epiphany. Plus, in March-April there will be a price hit, it is inevitable - businesses buy gas at 70 hryvnia per cubic meter.
Someone will pay for it and it will be the Ukrainians. Either this will consolidate the downward trend in the president’s ratings and he will go into a nosedive, or he will be able to stabilize the situation, and then he will have at least some chance,” concluded Andrei Zolotarev.
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