Yatsenyuk’s Resignation and the Formation of Ukraine’s Next Government
Yatsenyuk’s Resignation and the Formation of Ukraine’s Next Government

Author(s): Piotr Kościński, Daniel Szeligowski
Subject(s): Government/Political systems
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Ukraine; Arseniy Yatsenyuk; domestic policy; Eastern Europe; government
Summary/Abstract: With Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s resignation, President Petro Poroshenko has entrusted the mission of creating a new cabinet to his close associate, Volodymyr Hroysman, believed to be a reformer. However, the next prime minister will be held hostage by the president’s strategy of half-hearted reform and temporary compromise with oligarchs and members of the old political system, which hinders the fight against corruption and slows economic growth. Poroshenko’s political tactics are dictated by the false diagnosis that radical reform and fighting corruption would prevent him from being re-elected in 2020. Rather, it is the slow pace and the fiasco of implementing the reform that will strengthen the antipathy of Ukrainians to the political elite, including the president, that has ruled the country since the 2014 revolution.

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