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Trofimov: the first to leave the OP
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired the first deputy in President Sergei Trofimov’s office, and the heads of three regions will also be removed.
The local elections have passed, the time has come to draw personnel conclusions based on their results. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised even before the elections that “heads will fly.” And the first changes have already taken place. It affected the Presidency and the heads of the Regional State Administration.
Correspondent.netUnderstood staff disturbances.
Less Trofimov
Zelenskiy dismissed Sergei Trofimov from his post as First Deputy Head of the Office of the President and appointed him as an autonomous adviser.
Trofimov, known for a long time and partner of Vladimir Zelensky, was considered one of the representatives of the president’s inner circle. Since 2007, he has been the executive producer of the Kvartal 95 studio and supervised the making of films. In the PO, the former producer was responsible for communication with the regions and this area was one of the most problematic in Bankova.
The history with the mayor of Cherkasy Anatoly Bondarenko, with whom the open war phase between the center and the regions began, is indicative. After President Zelensky publicly broadcast a “hello” to Bondarenko for deciding to ease the quarantine in Cherkasy, the mayor posted a threatening message allegedly from Trofimov. The OP’s first deputy director called it a hoax or joke, claiming that he did not write anything to Bondarenko, but the scandal came out loud.
At the same time, Trofimov in an interview publicly declared his willingness to head the Office of the President. But instead, he has now been transferred into “honorary exile,” to independent advisers to the head of state.
On Bankova Street, they admitted that Trofimov had lost his post due to problems with the regions.
“The reasons are obvious. And here there are no hidden intrigues. After all, we have accumulated certain deficiencies in regional moderation, some of which negatively affected the communications of the Office and the local authorities, ”explained Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President.
He also added that Trofimov “is kind of soft to moderate regional stories.”
Podolyak noted that, however, Trofimov remains on the team as an advisor to the president, and the circle of his powers and responsibilities “is being finalized at this time.”
Governor purges
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the removal of the heads of the regional state administrations of Ivano-Frankivsk, Odessa and Sumy: Vitaly Fedorov, Maksim Kutsoy and Roman Grishchenko.
Here too the election results could have affected. For example, the result of the Servant of the People in the elections to the Odessa Regional Council is 17.48% of the votes and second place after the HLS, and in the 2019 parliamentary elections, the region’s servers had almost the Four. Five%.
Kutsego was constantly accompanied by scandals. For example, its cadence was the epic of the refloating of the oil tanker Delfi. Furthermore, the deadline announced by the governor was never met.
In general, the head of the Odessa Regional State Administration has long been called a candidate for impeachment.
Area of risk
Experts and turnover in government have long been expected. The Rada already has a resolution to dismiss Igor Petrashko. But, according to political scientist Vladimir Fesenko, now the authorities will not have time for changes in the cabinet.
“In the context of an outbreak of the epidemic and a sharp political confrontation around the Constitutional Court, the probability of the resignation of the government as a whole is drastically reduced, at least in the near future. But the resignation (more precisely, the dismissal) of individual ministers remains an urgent matter, but, most likely, after at least a partial resolution of the conflict between the president and the Constitutional Court, “believes Fesenko.
