Poroshenko stands alone. Ukraine politics in a pre-election year. OSW Commentary NUMBER 269 | 21.05.2018

Iwański, Tadeusz (2018) Poroshenko stands alone. Ukraine politics in a pre-election year. OSW Commentary NUMBER 269 | 21.05.2018. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

The year 2019 will be an election year in Ukraine, with a presidential election in the spring and a parliamentary election in the autumn. The short timeframe and the order in which these two elections will be held increase the chances of the winner of the presidential election forming the largest faction in parliament. The first phase of election campaigning has already begun, with Petro Poroshenko and Yulia Tymoshenko as the main contenders, but opinion polls are inconclusive. The atmosphere surrounding the campaign is one of mistrust on the part of voters in the authorities and the political class. Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution created expectations politicians could not fulfil

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