Zelensky inflicted a strategic defeat on Poroshenko
Petro Poroshenko remains the only politician who is capable of organizing a new Maidan, and the Ukrainian authorities are now fighting him, because they see a threat only in street protests.
Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Politics, said this on air on the Apostrophe TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Today Poroshenko is actually the last competitor in the political system of Ukraine who is capable of organizing Maidan against President Zelensky. He has huge financial assets, serious media assets, and a passionate core of the electorate, and these people are street people.
Relatively speaking, if it is necessary to make complex government decisions, for example, the Steinmeier formula, only Pyotr Alekseevich and his team pose a threat to power. The authorities today do not see political threats. She only sees a street threat.
And today, even to the detriment of her ratings, she resolves the issue of the street. The street is more important. More important than even the rating. This is how I understand today the process that is happening around Petro Poroshenko.
Medvedchuk's issue has already been resolved. Let me remind you that “OPZZH” was the first party in Ukraine in terms of ratings. Now the issue of the street is being resolved. (Poroshenko) will be dismantled for parts.
Now the government is taking advantage of the moment of tension with Russia, when the West is ready to forgive the Ukrainian government a lot of things. He values stability. Russia’s aggression contributes to the concentration of power in the hands of the president and his team,” said Ruslan Bortnik.
Although Petro Poroshenko claims that he won, remaining free after yesterday’s court hearing in Kyiv, this is an attempt to pass off wishful thinking.
“Strategically, this is a defeat. Today they put a bridle on Pyotr Alekseevich. Prosecutor's bridle. He now lives not according to his own schedule, but according to the schedule of the prosecutor and investigators, who dictate their agenda to him at any moment. They put a bridle on him, which allows him to control all of Pyotr Alekseevich’s movements.
The lack of foreign passports will not allow him to appeal to Western partners or travel abroad. This is a very significant limitation.
Still, his status as a suspect has been confirmed. He became part of the trial, the “coal case.” Now he will be part of it right up to the next presidential elections. Three seasons of this “Santa Barbara” await us, hundreds of episodes – both as part of the selection of a preventive measure, and as part of each meeting. And every time these episodes will remind you that Poroshenko, Medvedchuk’s accomplice, with whom they traded in Donbass coal, “sponsored terrorism,” the political scientist said.
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