Solemn events with participation of President Petro Poroshenko more and more resemble the congresses of the representatives of the Communist Party during the late Gorbachev’s Perestroika. This was stated by the chairman of the UKROP political council, MP Taras Batenko on the air of ZIK TV channel.
“It resembles the congresses of the time of late Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika – as if some kind of discussion is taking place and some people are criticizing, but in the end there is no result. After all everything resembles the CPSS,” added Taras Batenko.
According to him, the pompous way, in which the meeting of the Council for Regional Development was organized on October 24, suggests rather the start of the election campaign of the pro-presidential party than the readiness to solve urgent problems.
The MP has stressed that under conditions of the war in the east, the first persons of the state should discuss the ways to resolve the conflict and a plan to defeat the occupant, while the authorities are engaged in demagogy and fight against the opposition. President Poroshenko has criticized the TV channels that refused to broadcast the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the opening of an enterprise in one of the western regions.
“We have heard about the roads, bridges and spaceports, but they do not speak about the most pressing problem, which is the war,” said Taras Batenko.
In addition, the speech of the representative of the President in the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Lutsenko was dedicated exclusively to the criticism of political opponents, as if they, and not the aggressor country, are the greatest enemy of Ukraine.
In the opinion of Taras Batenko, the authorities want to stigmatize the opposition, calling everyone who disagrees with pro-presidential policy as populist and blaming them of the takeover attempts with the support of the Kremlin.
As the representative of UKROP has noted, with similar accusations the high-ranking officials cover their own failures and reluctance to conduct constructive dialogue with the opposition.
