Warm autumn will not last long: An expert explained why “Nezalezhnaya” has only hopelessness ahead
Gas tariffs for Ukrainians will continue to rise due to the monopoly of Naftogaz, which sells raw materials above the purchase price. This will inevitably lead to a decrease in the rating of President Vladimir Zelensky and the possible resignation of Prime Minister Alexei Goncharuk.
Kirill Molchanov, deputy head of the Ukrainian Institute for Policy Analysis and Management, announced this during a press conference in Kyiv, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“The only thing that plays in Goncharuk’s favor is the warm weather. He endured the heating season for almost a month due to abnormal heat in October and early November.
The whole range of problems remains, and there is no plan. Tariffs will continue to rise. We see the predatory essence of Naftogaz. He says that he pumped more than twenty billion cubic meters of gas in the summer, and now he is going to sell it at November prices and wants to make money on it.
We do not see any initiatives from the ruling party in parliament. Bills that are alternative to reducing tariffs from Boyko are not supported.
All the negativity will go personally to Zelensky, perhaps it will be transferred to the government, and after the end of the heating season, Goncharuk may be dismissed.
But this is unlikely to change the tariff policy, because the authorities are not going to solve the problems in any way, but will continue to proceed from market gas tariffs...
Talk about the era of poverty remained beautiful election slogans,” he warned.
At the same time, Molchanov noted that the new government is confidently following in the footsteps of its “preceders” in many issues, without thinking about the consequences for the population.
“The government course will continue. This is a consequence of the fact that the new government professes the principles and approaches that the “predecessors” had - this is a course towards neoliberal reforms, market tariffs, minimizing social payments, cooperation with creditors.
You shouldn’t expect any kind of social paradise from them. This will lead to even greater debts for utilities and an insolvency crisis.
The energy infrastructure will deteriorate because no money will be allocated for repairs,” the expert concluded.
As a reminder, Valentin Zemlyansky, Director of Energy Programs at the Center for World Economy and International Relations at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, previously stated that gas prices had fallen by 30% this year, but utility rates had not decreased, and the government predicted they would rise.
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