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Poll: Most Ukrainians Disapprove Of President Zelensky's Actions
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. © AFP / GENYA SAVILOV
Kyiv Post: Survey: Most Ukrainians disapprove of Zelensky’s actions
Only 28.2% of Ukrainians approve of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s performance, according to a new study published on Nov. 2 by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology.
About one third of respondents say that Zelensky met their expectations in whole (31.1%) or in part (4.3%). Almost half of the respondents answered that he did not meet their expectations. Another 14.2% say they never had any hopes for Zelensky.
Compared to a similar poll in July 2021, the figures have hardly changed. At the time, Zelensky had the approval of 29.3% of respondents and the disapproval of 56.1%.
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WNU Editor: Zelensky was overwhelmingly elected President on the promise to make peace with the eastern part of the country, and he was going to do so by accepting long-standing rebel demands for autonomy and control over culture and language.
His election win gave him a clear mandate, but this promise was quickly broken. I cannot put into words the disappointment that I heard from my family and friends who supported Zelenskiy, and who in the end were betrayed by him.
Not surprising. He and his party have not recovered from this broken promise.
Add the Ukraine government's disastrous response to the pandemic that is now ravaging the country in a new wave, coupled with continued corruption and economic stagnation, it has all but destroyed the 70% to 80% popularity numbers that he enjoyed when he was elected.
His party's shellacking in local elections last year (link here) should have been a wake-up call for him. But instead of learning what the voters wanted, President Zelensky has doubled down, pushing for a military solution to end the war in the east.
Zelensky's government is now even trying to get Europe involved with threats of war and invasion from Russia .... Ukraine warns situation on Russian border ‘seriously deteriorating’ (Politico). Even Russian media has picked up on this, and this is what the Kremlin is reading .... Ukraine tells EU leaders: Prepare for war with Russia (RT).
But it is on the domestic front that President Zelensky has become more authoritarian and uncompromising to his opponents. Ukraine’s English-language paper the Kyiv Post and critic of the President was told to suspend publication last week, followed by the firing of all its journalists. This was quickly followed by the Ukrainian government's decree that the country's three Russian-language TV stations (ZiK, NewsOne, and 112 Ukraine) be shut down, followed with the order to shut down the popular Russian-language news website Strana.ua. But this has been temporary, It is now at a different web address (strana.news).
Ukraine is a country where Russian is spoken by a majority of its people. A third of the country see themselves as Russian-Ukrainians. These anti-Russian policies are inflaming ethnic tensions in most of the country, especially in the Russian dominated eastern part of the country.
The next Ukraine Presidential election is in March, 2024. There are already politicians who are positioning themselves to run on the same platform that got Zelensky elected with 73% of the vote in 2019. I wish them the best. But a lot can happen between now and then.
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