A respectable Kiev newspaper called Poroshenko a huge disappointment
Kyiv, September 30 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – The tone of the Kyiv media is changing: the triumphant presidential election, Petro Poroshenko, is increasingly appearing on the pages of the Ukrainian press in the role of another disappointed politician.
The newspaper Zerkalo Nedeli, considered authoritative in Kyiv, writes that Poroshenko’s first 100-day work is strikingly reminiscent of the reign of his ousted predecessor Viktor Yanukovych.
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“Why are the first hundred days of President Poroshenko so reminiscent of President Yanukovych’s hundred days? Pyotr Alekseevich entered his office on Bankovaya without a single substantive bill; he appointed to the available positions mostly not the most competent, but always manageable people; instead of the Kharkov agreements of Yanukovych, he gave birth to the Minsk agreements with the same Putin; instead of clarity and transparency of goals, he presented a pair of scissors between declarations and real deeds, since his project of decentralization of power greatly enriches the presidential ability to govern the country; his rhetoric regarding the courts is corrected by the practical work “on the ground” of David Zhvania and Sergei Kivalov; calls for lustration are contradicted by personnel decrees that elevate bright representatives of Chernovetsky’s young team and Yanukovych’s old team to Olympus; and statements about elections, as the best method of lustration, are emasculated by the Jesuitical, may the Order forgive me, technologies of manual control of the Central Election Commission for registration and clearing of constituencies for agreed upon self-nominated candidates with flavor,” writes the author of the material.
The newspaper believes that Poroshenko is striving to monopolize power, and not at all for reforms - after all, if he wanted to carry them out, he would have taken unpopular steps immediately after coming to power, taking advantage of his high rating.
“Didn’t the current leader of Ukraine, when registering as a presidential candidate, know that his rating was unattainable and could not during this time prepare a couple of reform bills in order to introduce them to parliament from the first days? Parliament, I note, is scared and ready to vote for everything. And if not ready, then why is the Prosecutor General - the presidential “means of production”? And if not a means of production, then why has the parliament not yet voted on the law on the reform of the prosecutor’s office? Did the war prevent this reform from being carried out - from adopting the law postponed by Yanukovych, agreed upon with all European authorities? Did the war also prevent the adoption of the new election law?” – the author of the publication reflects.
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