Yevgeny Magda
Ukraine in 2016 has
seen so many political events, which in normal life would be enough for several
years. Moreover, we shouldn’t forget that Ukraine is going through the crisis,
the biggest one in its recent history, so the country’s achievements and
failures are measured in strategic terms.
Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s
fight to retain premiership ended in a predictable defeat, but the Popular
Front leader managed to retire voluntarily with a view to save his political
face. Although his ratings are not very different from a statistical error, his
political party is too early to write off. And it's not just about a massive
political advertising campaign in the end of 2016.
It’s also about the
fact that the demand for new political faces is hardly stronger than the
voters’ habit to bet on the well-known parties with polished rhetoric. Having
switched from the Rada Speaker’s chair to that of Ukraine’s Premier, Volodymyr
Groysman said good-bye to his image of the president's protégé and has kept
pledging a better life for Ukrainians ever since.
Doubling the minimum wage
would not be enough to this end, because utility costs have also jumped
significantly, while loyalty of the IMF remains an open question. The
government managed to promptly adopt the budget for 2017 at the cost of
compromising with the deputy groups beyond coalition, but implementing this
budget will be a no easy task.
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