Zelensky and power: how the president keeps anyone from overshadowing him
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has never liked sharing power since taking office. The outlet Ukrainska Pravda uses this as the starting point for a look at what is happening in the presidential office before what it calls the hardest winter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has shown since the start of his presidency that he does not like to share power, according to the Ukrainian news outlet Ukrainska Pravda. The outlet makes the point in a piece on the situation in the president's office, set against the coming winter, which it calls the most difficult one yet.
Leadership style
The outlet notes that Zelensky has not governed the way his predecessor Petro Poroshenko did. Unlike Poroshenko, he did not engage in excessive micromanagement of day-to-day matters.
Nor did he build an elaborate system of checks and balances like the one associated with Leonid Kuchma, another former Ukrainian president.
At the same time, the outlet says, Zelensky has not allowed people to appear in his circle who could put him in the shade.
Why it matters
These observations open the Ukrainska Pravda article titled "Zelensky's Autumn". In it the outlet examines what is going on in the president's office ahead of the winter it describes as the hardest. The available excerpt gives no details of specific decisions or personnel changes, so none are mentioned here.
