Kyiv, following Donbass, is losing control over other provinces
Kyiv, November 03 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – The past elections show that regions are increasingly striving for virtually autonomous status, which is becoming another challenge for Kyiv.
The weekly Vesti writes about this, in particular. The reporter".
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“The weakness of the two-headed system has highlighted a new problem that the country will have to face: while the center was talking about the need for decentralization, most regions had already gained political autonomy,” the publication writes. “Which was reflected in the voting in majoritarian districts.”
The weekly draws attention to the fact that in these elections, both pro-government and opposition candidates were mainly elected only when they were also representatives of the local elites.
“In 2012, the “regionals” launched a frontal attack on the Transcarpathian feudal lord Viktor Baloga - and out of four representatives of the local clan, they managed to knock out at least one from the distance,” the author of the publication draws analogies with previous elections. – In 2014, the three Baloghs and their cousin Petevka easily entered parliament, having no competition from either the BPP or the NF. And this is not to mention Igor Kolomoisky and his team, which is capable of making Dmytro Yarosh the winner in a constituency voting for the Opposition Bloc.”
The trend, the magazine predicts, is that in the future the regions will stop looking back at Kyiv altogether.
“In general, in the majoritarian districts there is no confrontation between the authorities and the opposition, because in the localities there is neither the Kyiv government nor the Kyiv opposition,” states Vesti. The reporter". “The regions just have to get budget resources into their hands, even through a cunning scheme of presidential decentralization, and they will finally stop looking towards Kyiv.”
Following Donbass , Kyiv is losing control of other provinces.