Without a fight, they surrendered the city

Doctor of Historical Sciences, political strategist Victor Kozoda discusses the results of the election campaign in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, drawing parallels with the elections of the mayor of Novosibirsk.

Victor Kozoda

There is another sensation in Ukraine. What happened? For the first time in all the post -Soviet time in this country, all the forces of power (president, parliament, government) were concentrated in the hands of one political force. Not only in the hands of the same power, the most interesting thing! Zelensky as a politician was not perceived until December 31, 2018. Who is he? Yes, some kind of showman, a clown, soldering, all this is not serious, “political scientists” and “political elite” were repeated. But in April, he became president, taking the current president in one gate.

And now the elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The Party "Servant to the People" takes out all the well -known traditional parties in one gate, having received the majority both in lists and around the districts. People “without a name, family and tribe” win around the districts, transferring the old bison of politics and elites, like blind kittens. Those who were yesterday, this very elite called only marginals. Now this, already a former elite, themselves began to "call in any way." In an instant, being “outside the game”, in the backyards of a new reality.

What is this powerful party? Yes, last year no one knew and did not perceive it in the "serious and authoritative circles of the elite." Last year, the now ruling party had an office of 4 square meters. meters!

What happened for these six months? And the fact that it collapsed like an old, rotten oak from the young wind of changes, the whole old, traditional political system, with all parties, experienced and famous politicians, ministries, security forces, traditional media. Think about it, this was how to bring voters to expel the whole disgusting elite from power, entrusting the fate of anyone, even unknown to people, but in no way connected with the "past" forces (albeit at least externally).

It’s funny to observe the former elites who mumbled something there in their defense. These gentlemen and ladies are not yet able to realize that they are no one in the new realities, nobody needs them, and everyone will decide not only not only them, but without them at all. And some of them, apparently, are waiting for a business trip to prison in the near future.

You involuntarily compare the elections in a neighboring country with what is happening in our Novosibirsk, with the behavior of our elite. The city grows in the city’s election, resistance to tariff growth. Where is our "elite"? Where is the voice of the City Council, mayor, most deputies? The leading political force without a fight and resistance, in a panic, throwing equipment and ammunition, throwing the population to their fate, hastily left the city, and the survivors supply unexpected “winners” by the provisions. In fact, they passed the city for 5 years. They are now not up to the urgent problems of the townspeople, they divide the places in the future composition of the regional legislative assembly. They set themselves outside the political space. Only the city hall and the new subject - the public, in the broadest sense of the word, remained political actors. These are “new realities”, but soon, apparently, they will be even newer.

Doctor of Historical Sciences Victor Kozoda