The ex-President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych is an example of head of state who is out of touch with the reality and sensitive to social changes and who reacts inappropriately to what is happening around, considers political analyst Nicolae Negru, who said that Victor Yanukovych’s style of management was like that of a first party secretary. If Ukraine had signed the Association Agreement with the EU, Victor Yanukovych would have had chances to complete his mandate, IPN reports.
In an editorial for the paper “Ziarul National” (“National Paper”), Nicolae Negru said that Victor Yanukovych preferred to sign a deal with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, believing that this way he would secure a new presidential seat in 2015, without thinking that he may lose the current seat. “The hundreds of thousands of people who took to the streets sent him a message that he didn’t understand and didn’t want to understand. Yanukovych had two months and a half at his disposal to correct his decision to turn away from the EU, but he didn’t profit from this break,” stated the analyst.
Nicolae Negru said that Yanukovych’s inability to cope with the reality and to react appropriately reached a climax on February 18, when the attack in the Maidan resulted in about 80 deaths among civilians and militiamen. Ukraine was on the verge of a civil war and only the intervention of the West stopped the bloodshed. The ex-head of state got scared of the consequences of his acts and ran away.
The Supreme Rada of Ukraine chose meanwhile another head of Parliament and voted to return to the Constitution of 2004, which cuts the powers of the President. The party colleagues of Victor Yanukovych declared him traitor and responsible for the bloodshed, while the Supreme Rada voted for his dismissal because he didn’t fulfill his constitutional duties. As many as 328 Supreme Rada members of the 450 voted in favor of his dismissal and May 25 was set as the date of early presidential elections.
Victor Yanukovych transmitted through his spokesman that he does not accept the MPs’ decision, describing it as a coup. Nicolae Negru said the only service that Yanukovych can do to Ukraine is to resign and eliminate doubts that the decisions taken by the Supreme Rada after his getaway can be illegal and to prevent a possible military invasion of Russia.
