Zelensky sets a record for becoming a lame duck
The new President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, most likely will not be allowed to really lead the state.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta comes to this conclusion, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Zelensky has every chance to go down in the history of world politics as a unique example of how to become a “lame duck” three weeks after a triumphant victory. And every day his likelihood of remaining in this dubious status until the end of his tenure is increasing. Because the collective Poroshenko, unlike the “people’s president,” is no longer lame,” the newspaper writes.
The publication notes that the current President Poroshenko is performing his duties in an emergency mode, placing his people in all positions that he can reach.
“At the same time, as evil tongues claim, he actively hides the ends of corruption chains, destroys incriminating documents, removes accomplices from possible attack, in other words, “goes into the cache.” A few more days at this pace, and Zelensky will never be able to fulfill his election promise to investigate the crimes of his predecessor,” the newspaper predicts.
In these conditions, the newspaper continues, Zelensky’s party, which so far exists only on paper, has less and less chance of getting first place in the parliamentary elections, and observers are increasingly strengthened in the opinion that the new president is, in fact, a Zits-chairman, a screen, a simulation.
“The personnel initiatives of the oligarch Kolomoisky and the significant silence of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Avakov only indicate that behind Zelensky’s back there are active negotiations on a new configuration of power between those who actually possess it. Zelensky will probably be allowed to administer the official pages of the President of Ukraine on social networks, transfer veterans of the Bandera underground across the road, fly to EU countries in economy class, take selfies with fans, and finally, wage an “information war” with Donbass and the “aggressor country.” , that is, only what he succeeds at the very least,” sums up RG.
Zelensky sets record for becoming a "lame duck"