The protesters in Ukraine started in late November 2013 consist of two streams: political negotiators and unbridled crowds taking over city and regional administrations. On Saturday, protest leaders Arseny Yatsenyuk was offered to become the Prime Minister and Vitaly Klitschko to be the Vice Prime Minister for Humanitarian Affairs. The situation only changed for the worse when the Justice Ministry was taken over in Kiev on the Sunday-Monday night. Justice Minister Yelena Lukash said that the protesters hindered the work on restoration of the 2004 Constitution.
Should Yatsenyuk and Klitschko accept the offer, opposition will regard them as ‘enemies’. Declining the offer would make the two uncompromising in the eyes of the government. They are expected to make the decision tomorrow.
Sergey Vasilchenko, a Ukrainian political analyst, said that protesters had no clear understanding of what to do next and forecasting further developments was impossible. Commenting on declaration of state of emergency, as warned by Lukash, the expert reminded that it needed the president’s approval. The parliament did not want it to be declared because it would then be responsible for all the outcome, especially considering the effect the laws of January 16 had, Vasilchenko said. There will not be enough votes, though the Party of Regions and the Communist Party will formally have enough votes to pass any bills.
The political analyst believes that absence of an advanced civil society was the main interior problem hindering the constructive process of the Euromaidan. Vasilchenko noted that there were no strong public associations. Klitschko, Tyagnibok and Yatsenyuk had no authority among the protesters and could not persuade the activists to stop, he concluded.
