Impeachment crept up on Poroshenko unnoticed
Petro Poroshenko may repeat the sad fate of his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych - in Kyiv, a conspiracy of oligarchs against the current president is real, as evidenced by the topic of impeachment, which the media began to discuss.
Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Analysis and Management, announced this at a press conference in Kyiv, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
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“Legally, the president is really not in danger; there is no mechanism, no elite consensus on the possibility of impeachment. But closer to 2019, such a consensus may emerge.
It is Pyotr Alekseevich who can become a scapegoat for everything that happened in Ukraine. Those people who sit in both parliament and the prosecutor's office will do the same thing they did in their time against Yanukovych.
But this is not even the main thing, this is not what the president is afraid of. Raising the very question of impeaching the president has an impact on the election campaign.
How to get re-elected for a second term if they are trying to impeach you? And it significantly weakens the president’s position in the international arena. Western politicians have little understanding of our realities, but the rumors are that they are trying to impeach him.
This already significantly reduces the president’s chances of being elected as a political bet of the West on the political cycle,” the expert said.
Impeachment crept up on Poroshenko unnoticed.