78% of Ukrainians Believe Zelenskyy is Responsible for Dealing with Corruption in Parliament and Military Administrations – Survey

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1. military administrations: sure.

   Parliament: no way. That would raise serious separation of powers questions. If anything, it’s the other way around: Parliament holds the president accountable.

2. Isn’t it everyone’s responsibility to deal with and report corruption? Sure he can help but it shouldn’t all fall onto one person

3. This is going to be spammed over and over and over again by Russian trolls trying to equate “responsible” with “at fault for”.

   The simple fact that we’re hearing so much about corruption in Ukraine is that it’s being systematically dug out and addressed, and the people responsible fired and/or jailed. Some of them for actually being corrupt, some of them for failing to address corruption.

   Zelenskyy is addressing the problem.

   (This is a re-comment, as I posted the exact same thing on another copy of this story about 10 minutes ago. This will be deleted in <5 mins).

4. Okay this was posted already and deleted after negative feedback, now I definitely believe it’s intentional propaganda.

5. I’ve seen this headline pop up on the Internet phrased in a way that Zelensky himself is responsible for the corruption.

6. > 78% of respondents believe that the President of Ukraine bears direct responsibility for corruption in the government and military administrations.

   I don’t want to try parsing this translation too closely because I can’t read the Ukrainian original, but I would agree with this statement in _every_ country.

   The leader always has responsibility, even when not involved and having no blame.

   Zelenskyy was elected on an anti-corruption platform, so has on his own _claimed_ that responsibility.

   This is not the same thing as claiming it is his fault, only that he has an obligation to work to eliminate it.

   I would love to know what nuance the original question has, in the native language, as asked.

   > (52.5%) of respondents expressed the opinion that it is now possible to criticize the government for corruption and do not agree that such criticism destabilizes the country and reduces the trust of foreign partners.

   This is a _huge_ positive! It shows people are not willing and able to speak up against corruption they would until now have ignored or remained silent about, and believe this is a good thing (because it shows a national willingness to oppose corruption).

   This seems to be a good argument that anti-corruption measures by Zelensky’s government are bearing fruit in the social landscape: that corruption is becoming less acceptable.

7. This is after all why we voted for him.

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   He said he would make efforts to remove corruption from the country.

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   Corruption has been in the country forever. The fact that it’s coming to light and something is finally being done about it a good sign.

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   There is a saying, a wound must hurt for it to heal.

8. I know the wording for this is incorrect. Even if it wasn’t any kind of accusation like this towards Zelensky I know is false.

9. I thought mods were active on filtering Russian OP

10. If we hear specifics about corruption in Ukraine, like we have heard in some incidents – that is not something that is necessarily bad – yes parts of the Ukrainian bureaucracy is corrupt but I doubt it is even close to the extent some would have you believe , or even since the war began .