24 October 2014
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told reporters on Oct. 23 that he aims to form the new parliamentary coalition a day or two after the early Oct. 26 parliamentary elections, as reported by the Interfax-Ukrayina news agency. “We will form on Monday-Tuesday a new coalition: pro-European, anti-corruption, without liars and populists,” he said. Poroshenko also expects a constitutional majority of 300 (out of 450) votes will emerge. “We are currently working on preparing a coalition agreement,” he said. “It will not be about positions or portraits. It will be about principles.”
Zenon Zawada: Instead of one or two days after the vote, we give it one or two weeks, at minimum, for the coalition to emerge. To ensure the coalition is against corruption, Poroshenko is well-advised to begin rooting out the corrupt politicians that he’s nomoinated for appointments, as well as in the list of MP candidates in his own party, which number at least 11, according to the Chesno parliamentary monitoring organization.
As for the populist claim, the entire country is hoping that Poroshenko leads the new government towards tectonic changes, as he had promised. However, his actions so far have demonstrated those are just words for mass consumption by television viewers and that he’s