KYIV – New polling results about the ratings of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s top political parties have confirmed both relative stability in political attitudes as well as creeping impatience with the pace of change. Furthermore, there have been a have been a number of noteworthy developments on the domestic scene that help illuminate how the political situation in Ukraine is developing.
The president’s ruling Servant of the People party, plagued by scandals and under relentless fire from its political opponents, appears to be holding its own. If elections were to be held now, it would still win more seats than its three main rivals combined. Mr. Zelenskyy, however, has to contend with an apparent erosion of his popularity, which for the first time has fallen to under 50 percent.