The rating of Kyiv “hawks” has fallen 20 times
Next Sunday, the next local elections will be held in Ukraine, the results of which could seriously change the balance of power in Ukrainian politics, and in the future lead to early parliamentary elections, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes.
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“In past years, local elections in Ukraine usually remained on the periphery of public interest due to their predictability: parties that divided the electoral field and the Verkhovna Rada traditionally confirmed their quota in the base regions,” the publication notes. “Now the situation is different, and the results will most likely not correspond to the balance of power in parliament.”
The newspaper recalls that the Popular Front party, associated with Prime Minister Yatsenyuk, whose party list received first place in the parliamentary elections just a year ago, has decided not to participate in the current campaign at all.
“Apparently, out of harm’s way, during the reporting period the rating of the Kyiv “hawks” fell by about twenty times,” RG emphasizes. – . The radicals of Oleg Lyashko have a similar deplorable situation. But parliamentary outsiders, primarily Yulia Tymoshenko’s Batkivshchyna and the Opposition Bloc, as well as old, newly emerged and even regional party brands, got a chance to win back. For example, the Revival party, which already has its own faction in parliament, where the scandalous oligarch Igor Kolomoisky gathered former “regionals” who were not accepted by another oligarch, Dmitry Firtash, into the “Opposition Bloc.”
The publication also provides data from one of the Ukrainian public opinion polls, according to which, on average in the country, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc will receive 19,6%, Batkivshchyna - 16,2%, the Samopomich party - 12,1%, Lyashko's radicals - 9,8%, “Opposition bloc” – 5,7%.
“To understand how disingenuous these figures are, you need to know that according to other polls in the Odessa City Council elections, the “Opposition Bloc” can get 25,7%, and the Petro Poroshenko Bloc will be in third place with 12,7% after the purely Odessa party “Trust things,” the publication comments on the survey data. “A similar, but very different from the “average temperature” in the country, balance of power is observed in general in the south and the Kiev-controlled east of Ukraine.”
The newspaper believes that it is precisely this obvious disproportion and the danger that the south and east will begin to “pump their rights” in the future in full accordance with the upcoming “decentralization” started by Poroshenko that most of the election scandals are connected with.
“For example, the removal from the race of favorites from the Opposition Bloc in Kharkov, including ex-regional governor Mikhail Dobkin,” the newspaper points out. “And also uncertainty about the very possibility of holding elections in the so-called ATO zone.”
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