Ukraine’s two leaders have betrayed their nation’s hopes to put an end to the oligarchy and legal impunity for the powerful elite. Instead, they have manipulated to preserve the corrupt status quo and their own business interests. Poroshenko would even deny Ukrainians the democratic right to elect their own leaders. He signed into law changes that would allow party leaders, not the people, to decide who gets seated in parliament. Poroshenko is untrustworthy in other ways, namely his control of prosecutors and judges while Yatsenyuk has shown himself to be a tool of the oligarchy and vested interests. It is appalling that the president’s corrupt lackey, General Prosecutor Viktor Shokin, is still on the job.
A new and restless generation of incorruptible politicians, civic activists and professionals is on the rise in Ukraine. Their coming to power cannot happen soon enough to save the nation and the dreams of the EuroMaidan Revolution.
