The center addressed
political experts with a question: “Does the failure to pass
legislation to pay for the snap poll mean that it will not take place?”
Political
scientist Volodymyr Fesenko, head of Penta Center for Political
Studies, said that the topic was not finished. According to him, in
this or that way, the President still has an opportunity to “play the
theme of dissolving the Verkhovna Rada”.
“If there is no
coalition – there is a reason to dissolve Rada. How to solve the
problem of financing the election? I think not only the President will
think over that but also the Party of Regions, which is now the most
interested in the snap poll. Only the first set has finished. The game
goes on”, he said.
Political scientist Victor Nebozhenko, head of
Ukrainian Barometer service, does not believe that the inefficient
voting on the snap poll financing will mean the failure of the idea.
V.Nebozhenko believes there are yet other variants to find financing
for the electoral campaign. “It means only that a part of politicians,
allies of Victor Yushchenko, are afraid that they will not get into the
future lists. They are afraid that the election will result badly for
them”, he said.
“By the highest standards, it was the victory of
Yulia Tymoshenko, the only one who publicly opposed to the election.
It’s difficult to say that somebody was defeated, because I can’t
understand the Party of Regions, which wanted the snap poll very much,
and which would really benefit from the election. But I can understand
lawmakers from Our Ukraine, who suspect that some 70% of them will not
penetrate into the next electoral list. Objectively, this round was won
by Tymoshenko”, he said.
Mykhaylo Pohrebynskiy, director of the
center for political studies and conflictology claimed that the failure
of voting means that the snap poll will not take place in December. “We
can be sure about that. As for the future, a snap poll in January or
even in spring does not look probable as well. The forecasts are not so
unambiguous as one-two weeks ago”, the political scientist said.
