Ukrainian authorities fear economic collapse and are in a hurry to hold elections
Kyiv, August 06 (Navigator, Vladimir Mikhailov) – Social cataclysms associated with the disruption of the heating season may begin in the fall, so they will try to hold elections before they begin, says political scientist Kost Bondarenko.
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The authorities are shortening the election campaign because they are trying to hold elections before the start of the heating season, which could be disrupted this year. This opinion was expressed at a press conference in Kyiv by the chairman of the board of the Institute of Ukrainian Politics, Kost Bondarenko.
“The authorities are in a hurry to hold elections before the start of the heating season. The heating season is an extremely painful thing. It is obvious that there will be serious miscalculations in the social and housing and communal spheres, and that they may affect the government’s ratings in the last weeks of the election campaign. People's discontent may manifest itself at the end of October. This is one of those features of the upcoming campaign that government officials are taking into account today. Today they are starting to talk about the need to shorten the period of the election campaign - with good intentions. According to government officials, we cannot now afford a campaign of 60 days, so it needs to be reduced to 45. But these 15 days of difference do not solve the issue of money - shortening the campaign will not save so much,” says the political scientist. In his opinion, social problems in the fall can lead to chaos and have unpredictable consequences.
Kost Bondarenko also urged not to believe the data of sociological surveys that have begun to appear now. “Nowadays, a lot of numbers are manipulative. Sociological services began to appear again - fly-by-night ones. They constantly publish information that some political forces have high ratings, while others have lower ratings. Moreover, their data sometimes differs by 10-15%,” he said.
“Today it is almost impossible to conduct sociological research in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. In addition, any sociology shows the mood of the population today, but not at the time of the elections,” the political scientist noted.
As Navigator reported, earlier Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said that early parliamentary elections should take place “in any weather.”
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