Zelensky expects “bombs” from Poroshenko
The new President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, faces very serious challenges, which the team of his predecessor Petro Poroshenko deliberately left as a legacy to the new government.
This was stated in his video blog by former Maidan journalist, Verkhovna Rada deputy from the BPP Sergei Leshchenko, who, shortly before Poroshenko’s defeat, openly went over to Zelensky’s side, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Zelensky takes office surrounded by many different scenarios, where there is no ideal, each of which has both weaknesses and strengths. For example, a reboot - but according to old laws and with support from a discredited court, or elections in October, but this time will be enough to regroup the clans, although there is a theoretical chance to cancel the majoritarian system,” Leshchenko said.
According to him, another “time bomb” that Poroshenko’s team planted under Zelensky’s presidency is the change of the head of the Constitutional Court.
“The previous leader, Stanislav Shevchuk, was close to some of the lawyers on Zelensky’s team from the time they worked together in the Ministry of Justice, and now he has been fired. There are a lot of claims against him, ranging from an overly tolerant attitude towards Poroshenko’s watchers and ending with the abolition of illegal enrichment, which provoked problems with the West, but the claims that Shevchuk made upon his dismissal look like reprisals - he was accused of appointing advisers to himself and the phrase in an interview that he will not swear in a president elected as a result of fraud.
And most importantly: Shevchuk was removed by Donetsk judges, who were appointed back in the days of Yanukovych, who entered into a conspiracy with Poroshenko’s people, and put Natalya Shaptala, a Donetsk judge appointed back in the times of Yanukovych, in charge of the Constitutional Court, who made the scandalous decision to return Kuchma’s powers to Yanukovych, for which he was not elected,” the people’s deputy said.
Leshchenko also recalled that after Yanukovych fled in 2014, proceedings were opened against a number of these judges for the usurpation of power, where they are witnesses, but at any moment suspicion can be brought against them.
“These judges cannot be conscientious, since they are on the hook for a criminal case, which means that the temptation to manipulate them and Shaptala may arise even in the environment of the new president.
In other words, very serious challenges await Zelensky as president, and corruption in the judiciary is the main one, because the people who, on behalf of the people, determine what is legal must have an impeccable reputation, and all this cannot be done without a new parliament. Therefore, the fate of Ukrainian democracy depends on when the elections to the Verkhovna Rada will take place and according to what rules,” Leshchenko added.
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