Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has launched his marketing campaign for re-election in March’s vote, which guarantees to be a bitter contest between him and a former prime minister.
Addressing supporters within the capital Kiev, Poroshenko laid out his hopes that Ukraine pushes on with efforts to affix the European Union and NATO if he have been to win one other five-year time period in workplace.
“We have now to safeguard [Ukraine’s] integration with the European Union and NATO,” he stated. “We should not cease half-way there.”
Poroshenko’s primary rival, former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, entered the race final week, promising to regain management of the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula and the separatist-held areas within the east. She accused Poroshenko and his associates of benefiting from the continued separatist battle there.
Opinion polls have proven Poroshenko trailing behind Tymoshenko. Some have even positioned comic Volodymyr Zelenskiy second, forward of Poroshenko.
Lengthy earlier than Tuesday’s announcement, the president had sought to bolster his sagging public help by spearheading efforts to safe the independence of the Ukrainian church from the Russian Orthodox Church.
Earlier this month, Poroshenko toured Ukraine with the Tomos, a scroll containing the decree of the Constantinople Ecumenical Patriarch granting independence to the brand new Ukrainian Orthodox church. Billboards with Poroshenko holding the scroll line the principle freeway linking Kiev’s airport and the town middle.
Ukraine’s prime minister and speaker of the parliament spoke on the congress in help of Poroshenko’s bid.
