2019 Elections: Here Is How Poroshenko Will Try to Win a Second Term

Translated by Ollie Richardson & Angelina Siard



16:26:49

10/01/2019



Maksim Goldarb

Concerning the mechanisms that will be used during elections for the “conservation” of Poroshenko’s second term…

For a start I will note that the juridical-procedural basis of the falsified “victory” has been created: today the pet Central Election Commission (which has no members that are in opposition to the regime) and the judicial system is completely controlled by the Presidential Administration.

So:

1. The deprivation of the physical possibility to vote or suffrage for those layers of voters who potentially are opponents of the current regime – IDPs, labour migrants, refugees (in 2018 it was already tested on IDPs, and now it is being tested on the Ukrainians who are in Russia);

2. The falsification of ballots by using an outdated and obsolete register of voters: it’s not for nothing that the CEC recently refused to reconsider it, having left in it millions of “dead souls” [people who no longer live in Ukraine but are still registered on ballot lists – ed] and the people who left Ukraine long ago, which gives the chance to massively attribute illegal votes to “pro” [-Poroshenko – ed];

3. Setting up the necessary number of ballot sheets at polling precincts in prisons in favour of Poroshenko and, most importantly, in ambassadorial and consular establishments: securing them will allow to forbid controllers and observers from going there;

4. Full pre-election censorship on all TV channels without exception: banning any criticism of the president, and allowing only neutral or positive reporting coverage of his actions;

5. At the same time, intensifying the work of whole farms of poro-bots on social networks; buying off so-called public opinion leaders for the purpose of making them produce pro-Poroshenko pre-election agitprop; closing opposition websites and newspapers and deporting their editors, leaders, and main journalists out of the country;

6. Using the recently created church and its servants for the necessary propaganda and pro-Poroshenko pre-election agitprop;

7. Sharply intensifying the political persecution of dissidents, oppositionists, and opponents: the falsification of criminal proceedings, illegal searches, arrests; blackmail and physical violence;

8. The appointment of Groisman as the scapegoat for failures in the economy and tariff hikes, transferring all finger-pointing to him, sending him into resignation (like saying “whilst I [Poroshenko – ed] was giving you Tomos, the language, and the army, he pissed away everything”);

9. Pre-election handouts in the form of certain pension, grant, subsidy hikes;

10. Flirting in the form of increasing the monetary allowance of the military and police;

11. The most standard and primitive purchase of the votes of poor voters, ruined by the authorities and brought to despair through starvation;

12. Constantly inventing and disseminating myths about “just wait another one (two, three, four, five…) years and we will enter into (we will be allowed into, we will be let in to, we will climb into)”, “there is a clear vision”, and other hogwash.

Will there be political murders? I do not know.

Please write, advise, and think about what I haven’t specified, and the most important thing – about how to fight against all of this, how to counter it in order to defend the interests of the people and Ukraine against trouble. Not much time is left, remember it! The fate of the country is on the line.

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