With Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s resignation, President Petro Poroshenko has entrusted the mission of creating a new cabinet to his close associate, Volodymyr Hroysman, believed to be a reformer. However, the next prime minister will be held hostage by the president’s strategy of half-hearted reform and temporary compromise with oligarchs and members of the old political system, which hinders the fight against corruption and slows economic growth. Poroshenko’s political tactics are dictated by the false diagnosis that radical reform and fighting corruption would prevent him from being re-elected in 2020. Rather, it is the slow pace and the fiasco of …read more
Source: The Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)
