During the April-May 2014 election campaign, Petro Poroshenko made many promises: to sell his confectionery business, end the conflict in Donbas within two weeks, protect the hryvnia from speculators, raise the prestige of military service, and so on.
However, in the past eight months, the head of state has only accomplished one thing: under no circumstances sell his media outlet, Channel 5. The remaining 16 points remain on paper.
This is how today's editorial, "Expert Council: What's stopping Poroshenko from fulfilling his promises?", begins in the publication "Minprom." https://minprom.ua/articles/175889.html
Although I didn’t find anything new for myself in this publication, I would like to cite several quotes from political experts that seemed quite fair to me.
Andrey Ermolaev, director of the New Ukraine Institute for Strategic Studies, expressed the opinion that Poroshenko, as a politician, accurately anticipates public demands and rushes to provide a set of answers in the form of promises, without addressing them on the merits.
"And then we see the President attempting to shift responsibility, dragging his feet on issues, creating the impression he doesn't know how to respond. We've seen situations more than once where the President has acknowledged the fallacy of his previous statements and promises. But that's fine once or twice, but when it happens repeatedly, it raises the question of how prepared he is to actually implement his promises, rather than just talk about them," Yermolaev stated.
According to former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration Andrei Senchenko, voters and society are willing to forgive a certain degree of populism and failure to fulfill some promises, but only if his actions are overall effective.
"Of course, a politician can make mistakes, but they must be offset by effective performance. What we're seeing with the President now is an inexplicable personnel policy and systematic failures. This is unacceptable," he said.
It's unlikely anyone would disagree with the above expert assessments of Poroshenko's performance as president over the past eight months. There are not just many, but a great many complaints against the current head of state. Moreover, the "Poroshenko list" is constantly growing. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=598329573633337&id=238703292929302&substory_index=0
Yesterday, for example, I reported how the other day, essentially, accusations were brought personally against Petro Poroshenko in connection with the presence of dubious schemes in the energy sector by the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Combating Corruption, Yegor Sobolev. https://www.facebook.com/238703292929302/photos/pb.238703292929302.-2207520000.1422593527./605780029554958/?type=1&theater
Also yesterday, Anatoly Gritsenko asked four specific questions on the same topic on the pages of Ukrainska Pravda (“Messrs. Poroshenko, Yatsenyuk and Yarema, the time has come to give an answer!”)… https://blogs.pravda.com.ua/authors/grytsenko/54ca694dbe260/
I wonder if Poroshenko doesn't know and sense that discontent with his actions (and inaction) is rapidly growing in Ukrainian society? And doesn't he understand that the people in the country now—after the bloody Maidan and thousands of deaths in the war with Russian and pro-Russian militants in Donbas—are not the kind of people who will tolerate all this for long?
In this regard, I'd like to remind Petro Oleksiyovych, just in case, that very soon—in March or April—many thousands of Ukrainians will be demobilized from the ATO. This includes those who went to fight in eastern Ukraine directly from the Maidan. And they will naturally come to Kyiv and ask the president what exactly he was doing while they were shedding blood in Donbas...
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