Heading Ukraine five years ago, Petro Poroshenko became “an attacker who had many chances to score, but he couldn’t score as much.” A lot has really changed in the country, but not for the better. Corruption fight failed. With the oligarchs, too, nothing has changed. With this alignment, only one thing remains – to replace Poroshenko, says an article in the Spanish edition of El Mundo.
The author compares the situation in Ukraine with the “marathon, and not without many obstacles,” whereas five years ago, the Ukrainians counted on a “sprint”. So it turned out that after the Euromaidan and the five-year plan that followed it, Ukrainians are asking only one question, but was it worth it?
The conflict in the Donbass was never resolved, the national currency collapsed, and gas costs three times more, the oligarchy is flourishing, the situation with corruption, which they promised to eradicate on Maidan, also remained unresolved. Referring to the data of Transparency International, the author indicates that last year Ukraine was on the 120th place out of 180 in the rating. In addition, internal opinion polls show that the authorities have trustof no more than 9 percent of the population, the author continues, calling the Ukrainians “tired and frustrated.”
All this pushed the people to support comedian Vladimir Zelensky, whose program, as noted in the article, in many respects resembles Maidan in its heyday. However, now the inhabitants of the country are not so confident in their future, they look at him with fear.
The article also cites the words of the former Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, Aivaras Abromavicius. He compares Poroshenko with “an attacker who had many chances to score, but he could not score as much.”
“Now he will have to be replaced,” the politician stated, noting that he himself supported Zelensky.