Ex-Ukrainian president reveals plans to run again
- Ukraine was supposed to hold a presidential election in March.
- However, elections have been postponed indefinitely on account of martial law, which was instituted in February 2022.
- Ukrainian laws forbid voting or campaigning during such a state of emergency.
“If you are asking me whether I plan to participate in the next election, (then) yes,” Poroshenko said live on Al Jazeera television on Tuesday. “But first, for this election, we need to have a victory,” he added.
- The bloc’s leaders agreed to open accession talks for Kiev on December 14, 2023.
- However, the European Commission does not yet have a clear timeframe for talks on the membership bid, its spokesman Eric Mamer said last month.
- His presidency was marred by the deadly conflict in Eastern Ukraine, the sharp decline of the national economy and accusations of corruption.
Poroshenko’s government unsuccessfully attempted to quash a rebellion in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions with military force. He signed the two Minsk agreements, which were supposed to de-escalate the conflict and reintegrate the regions into Ukrainian political systems with more autonomy, but Kiev stonewalled their implementation.
Poroshenko later boasted about his role in rebuilding his country’s military under the cover of the Minsk agreements, insisting that this had allowed Ukraine to prepare for the current confrontation with Russia.
Moscow has cited Kiev’s failure to implement the Minsk accords, its continued attacks on Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as NATO’s encroachment into Ukraine as key reasons for the launch of its military operation in February 2022.
Poroshenko lost the 2019 election in a landslide to Zelensky, who campaigned on the promise that he would make peace in Donbass, only to reverse course and seek NATO support in Ukraine’s confrontation with Russia.
Ukraine election: Poroshenko concedes after Zelenskiy landslide | DW News
Poroshenko is currently the head of European Solidarity, a small opposition party with 27 seats in the 450-member national legislature, the Verkhovna Rada.
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2014 Ukrainian revolution[edit]
- In an interview with Lally Weymouth, Poroshenko said: "From the beginning, I was one of the organizers of the Maidan. My television channel — Channel 5 — played a tremendously important role. ... At that time, Channel 5 started to broadcast, there were just 2,000 people on the Maidan. But during the night, people went by foot — seven, eight, nine, 10 kilometers — understanding this is a fight for Ukrainian freedom and democracy.
- In four hours, almost 30,000 people were there."[72]
- The BBC reported, "Mr Poroshenko owns 5 Kanal TV, the most popular news channel in Ukraine, which showed clear pro-opposition sympathies during the months of political crisis in Kiev."[46]
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