To serve the people – total power in Zelensky’s hands. OSW Commentary Number 306, 24 July 2019
Journal: Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh)
Year: 2019

The key slogans of the campaign of Volodymyr Zelensky and his party Servant of the People ahead of the presidential and parliamentary elections were: to bring fresh blood into the political class and to introduce honest professionals to politics who have not been discredited. The new president had no political experience whatsoever and, as a result of the parliamentary election, over three quarters of the seats in the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) will be taken by individuals who hav