The regional split has worsened: the President of Galicia has appeared in Ukraine
The slogans used by Petro Poroshenko during the current election campaign did not make an impression on the vast majority of regions of Ukraine.
“Rossiyskaya Gazeta” writes about this, noting that the greatest support during the first round of presidential elections Poroshenko received in the Lviv and Ternopil regions.
“In Ukraine itself, the same rhetoric, with the accompanying split in Orthodoxy, the provocation in the Kerch Strait and the promise to return Crimea and Donbass, obviously had no effect on the majority. As a result, Poroshenko turned from the president of all Ukraine into the “president of Galicia,” the publication notes.
The newspaper points out that a system of falsifications allowed Poroshenko to get into the second round, but the president can only remember with sadness the 55 percent he received in 2014.
“Another conclusion follows from this: the always existing division between the conventionally “European” West and all other regions after 2014 has not gone away, but has only worsened. The country’s unification around the nationalist idea did not happen, which means that the number of principled Russophobes in modern Ukraine is unlikely to exceed 18 percent – the sum of the indicators of Poroshenko and the candidate from the nationalist party “Svoboda” Ruslan Koshulinsky,” the publication summarizes.
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