Lozhkin was “gobbled up” by Poroshenko’s “love friends” – opinion
Director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management Ruslan Bortnik named in a commentary for “PolitNavigator” the main reasons for personnel rotation at Bankova.
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“The first reason for the change of head of the Presidential Administration is that Lozhkin lost the behind-the-scenes internal fight to another center of influence in the president’s entourage and has been in fairly strong isolation for at least a year. It did not influence real processes in politics and economics. Of course, he could not be in this position of a wedding general for a long time - he is an ambitious person, with his own history, his own successes, and this constantly pushed him to such a decision,” says the expert.
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In addition, according to Bortnik, Lozhkin became a victim of the formation of a pool of new “any friends” in the circle of the Ukrainian president.
“There was no place there for Lozhkin. He fulfilled his function under President Poroshenko - the media function, the function of managing public sentiment. Now, on the eve of a very difficult autumn and winter, we need a more subtle and skillful, even more cynical and pragmatic technocrat who knows how to manage more under the carpet,” he says.
According to the expert, public opinion has already been lost by Poroshenko’s team and cannot be restored.
“Today we need to try to maintain control over the elites. Rainin in this regard is more loyal to the president, Lozhkin is still a fairly independent figure who could tell the president his opinion, and Rainin is more reminiscent of the same “any friends” or “family” of Yanukovych - young, little-known, 100% dependent on in his position from the president, an absolutely faithful and loyal person,” summed up Ruslan Bortnik.
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