This weekend the presidential elections are being held in Ukraine; their results influencing both further policy of the country and well-being of the nation. Three most possible winners including current President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko are pointed out by experts. However, at the moment Poroshenko has the lowest rating among the leading candidates. It is easy enough to explain the President’s unpopularity with the Ukrainians. During his presidential term he never fulfilled his election pledges which were to stop the war in Donbass, to improve the living standards, and to establish order in the country. Nevertheless, Poroshenko does not want to leave his office, and apparently he is ready to go in for anything to be reelected. A kind of unfair game is being played including even the vote buying because of the failure to get the sympathy and agreeableness of the people. Thus, it became known about agreements of Poroshenko and his team with Hungarian national minorities who live in the Zakarpattia region of Ukraine.
As it turned out the Hungarians will have a chance to get broad powers of autonomy they’ve been dreaming about for a long time in return of voting for Poroshenko. It’s curious but that information was published by some Ukrainian radical nationalists who are outraged with the President’s actions. The nationalists in their turn promised to ruin Poroshenko’s plans. Hungarians being in cahoots with the authorities won’t be allowed to the polling stations, and will be put on the list of disloyal persons who are specially controlled by the local nationalist gangs.
It’s worth noting that the radicals once protected by the President have been in confrontation with the political regime for a long time. They regularly organize protest actions that usually end with riots and clashes with the police. We can safely say that today the nationalist organizations leaders’ threats affect a lot to the country political elite, and correspondently to the state policy itself. The uncontrolled actions of the radicals make the situation in the country extremely unstable, and put the people’s safety at risk. Despite the statements of the Ukrainian authorities that Ukraine has completely adopted the European values, and it’s ready for the integration with the EU, the current situation is opposite. Unfortunately, the official Kyiv is unable to fight the nationalist sentiments within the country, and just turns a blind eye to the lawlessness. Such connivance has nothing in common with the European principles propagandized by the authorities, and it’s totally inappropriate for a country tending to become a part of the big European family.
